Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-bee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!tony From: tony@ssc-bee.UUCP (Anthony Stelmack) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: How to legally read Joe Bob Message-ID: <252@ssc-bee.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 16:11:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-bee.252 Posted: Wed Oct 24 16:11:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 03:03:44 EDT References: <53700036@trsvax.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 38> But then the real problem. They want "only" $100 a week for the rights to > distribute Joe Bob (with a $1200 advanced payment). I guess this could be > done, after all, there are around 1200 sites, if each site contributes a > dollar... But who would want to send their dollars off to an unknown > person, who could very easily pocket the money > > George Moore Tandy System Software I think it's reasonable and feasible to 'buy' (rent?) Joe Bob, although $100 a week seems a little high. First; the money would have to come from individuals, not sites. (I've never seen a VAX with a pocket, let alone a dollar in it.) I would be willing to pay a few dollars a year to have Joe Bob on the net. His columns are carried locally by the Seattle Times. Except that they are edited to avoid offending community morals, and REALLY OFFENSIVE columns just aren't published. (This in a city which reportedly ranks number one in the country in "Escort Services" per capita.) Some of the quarters I wouldn't spend on the Seattle Times could go towards Joe Bob on the net. (I probably shouldn't have said that.) Why not just start a fund that individuals can send mony to? When the fund gets big enough, Joe Bob goes on the net. When (if) the fund gets empty, he stops. Second; I think that there are probably a few trustworthy individuals on the net. Anyone who is a system administrator at a university or a software house has greater potential income sources than a possible Joe Bob Fund. Last; The real problem is finding someone to do it. I would volunteer except that I will be off the net in about three weeks, and I'm not in a good position to do it anyway, being neither a system administrator nor at a backbone site. This could be a very interesting experiment/precedent. Let's go for it!.