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  On-line Magazines, Yahoo, etc.

   • j********o@***.com
     13/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     What's the deal with on-line magazines, like C/Net, and resources like

     Yahoo: how do they derive their income? C/Net, etc., seems to have a

     subscription deal, but it seems odd to offer a free service (just
     watching

     that Gina St. John is worth good money!) And Yahoo is a publicly traded

     company: why is it worth anything? Perhaps there's some other feature

     they offer for a fee (and there are advertisements...)? I wonder if some

     day these will become more like paper magazines that you purchase the

     latest copy of when you need to use it.

     GORNO

     Yada Yada Yada, Blah Blah Blah, He says this, You say that, Something

     happens, and you win some...of this stuff, got it?

     Montaigne was a silly fellow.

       • s******j@**.com
         13/06/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <4po7l7$***@n*******.****.***l.com>,

         JohnGorno wrote:

         >What's the deal with on-line magazines, like C/Net, and resources
         like

         >Yahoo: how do they derive their income?

         The truth is almost too terrible to reveal, but here goes. When you

         connect to one of these services, a small portion of your brain's

         processing power is diverted to

         LOST CONNECTION

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