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Subject: ARROGANT

Author: Mark Young

Date: 12:14:40 10/01/04

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On October 01, 2004 at 09:55:50, Mathieu Pagé wrote:

>On September 30, 2004 at 11:10:40, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Looking at the answers to my post asking about who are or are not prepared to
>>pay something to keep CCC and his sister, I concluded first that those that
>>accepting the idea simply say "yes", but those that does not, give lot of
>>explanations. Interesting. Anyway I would like to make a more concrete question.
>>Do you consider reasonnable 20 bucks a year?
>>
>>In my country and from any country 20 bucks is less than the cost of purchasing
>>one average book in Amazon
>>In my country and I think in any country 20 dollars is less than put some gas
>>-not to fill it- in the car, once.
>>...and less that go to the cinema with the girld friend or wife.
>>...or less than those triffling expenses you make in a supermarket, anyday,
>>almost without realizin it.
>>
>>I ask this not as coordinator of this place neither under any official or
>>informal position here or making a "due diligence" under a third party command :
>>It is just my curiosity to know how far we are prepared to go to keep this place
>>running.
>>
>>"How far" is of course a joke: 20 dollars a year are not "too far" I guess...
>>Fernando
>
>Hi,
>
> The question is not what else can we buy with 50$, the question is : How much
>should we pay for a forum?
>
> There is lot of forums out there: news groups and web based one. I did not know
>of only one that I should pay to read. All those forums are of the same quality
>as CCC (IMHO) so lot's of people offer the host a new Computer Chess forum, I
>said go for it. If we can do it with volunters and a cheap hosting (maybe 600$ a
>year. Easy to get by donations) I see no reason to pay 50/year for that.
>
> I don't said that Steven did not do a good job, I said that there is other
>people willing to do the job for free.
>
>Mathieu Pagé

I agree. It is above arrogance for someone to tell me how much I can afford to
pay for CCC. The question is why should I pay anything for CCC!! And what will I
get in return for my money.



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