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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