Proposal: PAID advertising on CC (was: IBM DDYS 07N3255

The money might serve as a deterrent to repeat ads from the same people. Otherwise, we need to decide how high the fee should be to make it worth our while. The money should be split between the list expenses (Jay's system, etc.), the person(s) doing the invoicing accounting and collection, and the individual members of the list. To avoid excessive accounting load, individuals would NOT be paid unless they accumulate some sort of threshold amount in a finite time (such as if over $500 per month). The business spammers (as opposed to the Nigerian bank transfer guys) can argue all that they want about whether or not their crap is or is not "spam" (I'll bet that not a one of them even know the relevant Monty Python sketch). But they can't dispute that we have a right to charge legitimate rates for paid advertising. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com