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On Tue, 28 Mar 1995, Jeremy Allaire wrote:

> << space, making them, potentially, a direct competitor to the newspapers 
> whose material they have rights to.  >>>

> Hmmm.  I wasn't aware of the Ad space component.  While it appears that Netscape is now selling ad space on its home page and other parts of its Web, I didn't see any indication that Individual Inc. was going to be selling ad space in their information service.
Actually, it makes sense.  Since netscape can ship incrimental jpegs, 
graphics don't hold up the content.  If someone is really interested, 
they can wait for the full graphic.  The jpeg graphics are catalogue quality
and are not intrusive.  The user can also elect to "get more info" which 
give the advertizer knowledge of how many people actually read the 
adverizing copy (the closest thing in print is coupons).

> It also seems that they are in a "free beta test mode", and that the service will move to fee-based pretty quickly.
Dow Jones has been in this mode since July.  The URL is:
http://dowvision/wais.net

It isn't the full 2000 publication database of NRS, but it is a good rich
body of content (about 100,000 pages/month).

> Am I wrong?
> Jeremy Allaire

This industry is so crazy it's anybody's guess.
	Rex Ballard


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