From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 26 1996 - 21:16:46 MST
"Lee Daniel Crocker" writes:
>If a limited list has inherent value, why not take the obvious,
>simple, and fair approach of charging for it? Only those with
>enough serious interest to participate and support the list would
>join, and that level of participation could be adjusted by price.
>That would also prevent a scheme like that above from excluding
>valuable participants with unpopular views or confrontational
>rhetoric, ...
You might similarly argue that there are too many trash books
published, so let's put a tax on authors. The value isn't in limiting
the number of posts in any ole way, it's in somehow increasing the
average (reader-perceived) quality of posts.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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