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To: Rambi who wrote (17317)	2/2/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Thank you for the welcome ma'am. I'm sure I overthought your son's assignment, but that's nothing new--someone asks me my favorite color, and I launch into a monologue on color theory. . .

To: Rambi who wrote (17317)	2/2/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Was thinking the other day . . ."how could some of SI's talented writers actually get paid for sitting around, staring at monitors, and la laing all day?" Well, there is an economic value to the traffic talented writers like you and others generate to this and other websites--a calculable "eyeshare" of readers. My fantasy was that one day, some folks (or their threads) are going to have advertising sponsors. You, for example could get a contract with Ladies Home Journal, or Better Homes and Gardens (these are the kind of mags you'll have articles in someday, right?) for their logo (not a banner) to tastefully appear somewhere on your thread, and you, in turn, would be paid by the number of hits your thread or your posts generated. Sites already do this. Why shouldn't certain posters be sponsor "enabled" (throw SI a % of the posters' moolah for hosting them) as a reward for their contribution to a site's success? I recently saw a list of the top 100 bookmarked posters on SI, and I do believe that if all of them stopped posting, the quality, and hit count of this site would suffer. Lessee here, .005 a hit could generate some nice change for a popular poster, at a relatively low cost per impression for an advertiser while delivering a very attractive consumer demographic. Now wouldn't that be cool? Getting paid for an addiction. . . "What do you do for a living ma'am?" "I get paid to la la on SI"