Re: [mv] Re: MiniVend Documentation/Book

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:05:09PM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>     ******
> 
> 
>   Some folks can collaboratively agree to pay for minivend documentation
> (in a somewhat legally binding way, I think), and then some other folks
> can agree to take on the project for that the agreed upon amount. So if
> a bunch of users agreed to pay $30 (or more!) each to fund the project,
> some enterprising writers and editors might take the project on, knowing
> they were guaranteed at least this fixed amount. 

I've long thought that would be a great (though very mundane) opportunity.

I would pay **more** than that just to subscribe to a moderated version
of this mailing list. The moderator would build the documentation as 
part of the deal and answer the FAQs off list.

There are a number of mailing lists I've had to unsubscribe because
the SNR was just way too low.  It would be well worth it to me to subscribe
at say $50 a pop to more lists if the volume was reduced to maybe 10%
of current by a good moderator.  The delete key does not cut it when you've
got a flood of messages with bad thread names.

cfm

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