Re: OT: Electronic episodes

From: Mike Dawson <mdawson_at_...>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:16:34 -0000

Exactly.

>
> Right - but paypal and similar systems introduce extra cost for
> transaction processing.

Not to the buyer.

  As I say, I might be prepared to pay
> pennies...

the market for HW stuff is far too small for anyone to earn more than the cost of a beer at that rate.

 but then the value per transaction is usually too low to
> be worthwhile. Information wants to be free - now that we have
> escaped the wood pulper, we should stop paying for it, IMO. But
> thats very OT.

And I haven't escaped my mortgage....

My guess is we are about to get a message from the list mom about this topic.

Mike

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