srw
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NarrowCast Media has offered to sponsor our website
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Mar 2 13:11 UTC 1997 |
As webmaster, I received a message from Eric J. DePrano of NarrowCast
Media. They have made us an offer, namely that we permit them to place
advertising on our website, and they will pay us for every hit.
I am interested in hearing what the Grex membership and user base thinks
of this idea. Try to be open minded, and we can list out the pros and
cons and bring up this question at the next board meeting, which I
believe is scheduled for March 26
Here is the letter I received:
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From: eric@narrowcastmedia.com (Eric J. DePrano)
To: webmaster@cyberspace.org
Subject: Site Sponsors
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 20:12:57 -0800
Hi,
I visited Welcome to Grex! at http://www.cyberspace.org/ and liked it a
lot. The company I work for, NarrowCast Media, would like to sponsor
your website.
NarrowCast Media would like to place banners at the top and bottom of
each webpage in your website. These banners will be dynamically served
from our fast Internet servers.
NarrowCast Media has gathered together over 1000 host websites into a
network. It is our job to get sponsors for these websites. By joining
the network you will be able to generate revenue in the same manner as
sites such as "Yahoo" and "Hot Wired". The difference is that we do all
you work to bring in the sponsors. We will even give you the HTML code
that is quick and easy to cut and paste into your Webpages.
The Bottom Line: We will pay you up to $8.00 per thousand unique host
impressions. This means that for every 1000 people that see a banner on
your website we will pay you up to $8.00.
This program offers websites an extremely effective method for
increasing your revenue. You can join even if your website only gets 1
hit each month.
Please visit our website at <http://www.narrowcastmedia.com> for more
information and the host site application. Joining the network is quick,
easy, and free.
Take Care,
Eric DePrano
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And here is my response to him:
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Eric,
Thank you for your interest in Grex and in our web site.. This method of
generating revenue for our system is one that we must consider for a
while. I hope you will leave the offer open for a month or more, while
we discuss this.
Grex is an openly democratic organization, run by its members. Anyone
can be a member by merely supporting us. Non-paying users are also
allowed to share their thoughts about how the system should be run. The
disadvantage of this kind of organization is that it takes a long time
to make decisions.
I will begin the discussion of your offer on-line shortly in the coop
conference, which is accessible via telnet/picospan or http/backtalk, as
explained on our web site. Feel free to join the discussion once it gets
started, if you care to.
Action will probably be taken at the next scheduled board meeting on
March 26. You should hear from us shortly after that date with our
decision.
-srw (Steve Weiss, a Grex webmaster, webmaster@cyberspace.org)
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