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To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (19467)	1/30/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: tonyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

>You can take any losing company and use the same logic. >You can say "all they need to do is raise their prices". The airline industry did this on Friday. >I think this is a moot point, anyway. They presently advertise and >sell their service as free. They do not indicate that they >have the right to charge for this service in the future. "GeoCities also reserves the following rights: To amend or change the GeoCities Content Guidelines or Terms of Service at any time and without notice;" (...for other rights see their website) >They could open themselves up to lawsuits if they did so. You can't sue someone because they decide to charge for a service that used to be free. Using that logic, SI opened itself up to lawsuits when it decided to charge membership fees.