On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:31, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Hope this helps explain. I am an author as well, I would never
> >> republish content. :)
> >>
> >> Let me know if you'd like an account activated so you can see how it
> >> works - but rest-assured, it's not hosted on our site, just pointed to
> >> on your site. For example, these two articles send people to:
> >
> > I found this link that says he pays for contributions from authors:
> > http://www.sswug.org/columnists/editorial.asp?wdb=09/27/2006&id=38
> >
> > So what's going on? Personally, I don't mind if somebody posts a
> > reference to an article but charging money while the author doesn't see a
> > penny of it?
>
> They are charging for access to their portal. If you (not the literal
> you) are too lazy to go through google to find the information, why not
> let them charge? They went through all the hard work to categorizing the
> information, they deserve the money people are willing to pay.
>
Well now, let's not start hoisting them up as business of the year... the
majority of thier traffic comes from people searching google who think they
find solutions, only to find out they have to pay, only to find out they paid
for nothing more than a hyperlink that they probably would have found if this
site didnt get in the way of thier google searching. (Yeah, that's
speculation, but from what I have seen that's how it works, and I've known
about them for quite some time)
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Robert Treat
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