Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: If you want good news software, you'll have to pay for it Message-ID: <197@looking.UUCP> Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 00:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: looking.197 Posted: Sat Oct 20 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:42:00 EDT Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 20 With all the noise being raised of late concerning problems with the net - moderated groups, overload, crazy users, newcomers, bad selectivity - I would like to remind people that many of these problems are technological and would be solved a new news system. Full credit to people like Matt Glickman and Mark Horton, but they designed this system in 1981 in their spare time, and don't have the time to support it now. That's the story with free software. The price is right but you pay for what you get. If people on the net are serious about the price they pay for reading news, they would commision a commercial, supported netnews product. A fee of $100 per site would easily handle this project for a while with proper cooperation. Or perhaps $10-$20 per user would be better. How many people wouldn't pay $20 to reduce the time wasted while reading news by even 10% If this sounds like the old Usenet, Inc. discussion again, I suppose it has some similarites; but if you don't think software is worth paying for then why are you a programmer? -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473