Re: The Commonwealth Network

Don 'DocDon' Taylor (docdon_at_pobox.com)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:14:08 -0400 (EDT)

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At 07:19 PM 6/20/96 -0400, Jeff Yoak wrote:
>
>I was looking under the recent threads; this looks like an interesting list.
>Normally, I'd read a bit more before plunging in, but given the plea from
>the owner, I thought I'd ask about the Commonwealth Network. For those of
>you who aren't familiar with it, it can be found at
>http://commonwealth.riddler.com/
>
>If it is on the up and up it seems like a good opportunity for people with
>smaller sites that are of a general interest. I haven't signed up myself,
>but by my calculation, pages I've authored that currently have no
>advertising could yield a couple hundred a month. That's not a fortune, but
>I haven't been approached by anyone else.

Jeff, I visited the site (but didn't bother to read all 26 sections of the
rules and the royalty system). The idea seems clean enough.

I don't know anything else about them but I'm not sure that I would want to
lose control over what ads appear on my site. Pages you authored, so far as
I can imagine, would not generate revenue for you unless you owned the sites/
pages. They would generate revenue for your clients who did. That could give
you a selling point--I can show you how to recoup some of your investment--
but the owner is still faced with the same question: What if I don't like
the ad that appears on my site? Answer: Don't join, because if you do you
lose your freedom of choice.

Don

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