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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: A different Laffer curve? (was: GM Plant Closures Again? Won't Solve the Economic Problems)
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:01:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.141252.14523@litwin.com> claird@litwin.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- >nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
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- >>In article <1gieqsINNma6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben) writes:
- > .
- > .
- > .
- >> I'm sure occasionally it has done someone, somewhere some good.
- >> The technical computer groups, are, in my experience, good
- >> sources of technical information. Although even that, IMO,
- >> reflects the fact that for most people on Usenet "somone else"
- >> is paying for it. That is, on Compuserve you are paying $12
- >> an hour. At those rates you generally want to get in and out
- >> quickly, posting your question or looking for answers to your
- >> earlier question(s). Most CI$ users can't afford to read
- >> hundreds of daily postings and consider providing answers to
- >> a few of them, at least I can't. Selfish? Practical.
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- > .
- >Idle question: do you believe that Compuserve
- >could profitably adjust its pricing? It's easy
- >to extrapolate your observations to conclude
- >that, if Compuserve had lower marginal charges,
- >the quality of the dialogues on their fora would
- >rise, and they would then attract more readers
- >and writers.
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- Since we have no idea of their internal costs it's
- impossible to speculate meaningfully. Certainly
- if I could access their fora for $6/hr instead
- of $12 I would spend more time reading them, but
- probably not twice as long. Also, if people did
- spend more time then this would increase CI$'s
- fixed costs, too. They'd need more computers,
- tie-lines, disk-space, etc.
-
- Really hard to say.
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- ---peter
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