From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: RFC: ads on delorie.com Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:50:34 -0300 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3D04D8DA.1EB02473@uol.com.br> References: <200206031429 DOT g53ETT226729 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 200-221-14-196.dsl-sp.uol.com.br (200.221.14.196) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1023727951 3627466 200.221.14.196 (16 [39218]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,es,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > [snipped] > So my question to you is: should I allow these types of ads? I hope > that my visitors are intelligent and rational enough to simply ignore > ads inappropriate to their personal preferences, and/or to disable > javascript if pop-unders bother you, but is that an acceptable > assumption? I feel they are OK in the context, since you have to pay for the infrastructure. > > Another option I've thought about is a subscription service, which, > for a token fee, would remove all ads for subscribers. Thoughts? > I would be willing to pay for a fee (if I can afford, it of course ;-) and as second suggestion on revenue stream, consider a subscription based on CDs as well as used to be in the time Walnut Creek distributed FreeBSD. Perhaps some package of CD plus non ads part of the site. My humble but sincere two cents, -- Cesar Rabak GNU/Linux User 52247. Get counted: http://counter.li.org/