Hey, your mail is off-topic. I read this list for bike stuff.

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From: "Patrick James" <patrickjames@...>
Date sent: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:25:52 +0100
Subject: Re: [brighton_area_cyclists] from the Argus
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> On September 30 2003, Alan (Fred) Pipes <pipes@...> wrote:
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> >The Argus has started to charge for the web version of the paper, but
> >you can still get day-old news and letters in the Archive!
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> Hi
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> I noticed this last week myself actually.
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> What I'd really like is if the Argus (and papers in general) put all the
articles on the web in HTML and then charged for looking at them using a token
system.
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> A token system, as way of explanation to any that haven't used one, is where
you pay say ten pounds and for that get allocated a number of visits to the
web-site. If you consider an issue is 30p then ten pounds might give you 30 or
more visits.
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> This way you can read the paper as thoroughly as if you had bought the actual
"hard" version and the newspaper company will be making money from it.
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> At the moment I only buy the Argus on Thursday, to look and see if there are
any jobs, and sometimes on Saturday to read Anne Doyle's piece.
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> I don't buy any other papers, but what I do is scan the headlines in the shop
and if I see a news story of interest I just go to the 'net to find out more.
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> I do use the BBC news pages a lot!
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> Putting the Argus in PDF form on the 'net is no good for me because the PDF is
a ghastly thing to read at any length on the computer screen and of course they
aren't doing it on a token system but rather you have to pay as if you were
buying the Argus every day for a long period which is very
expensive.
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> I do feel it is good to pay for the use of newspapers as the journalists who
write them have to be paid, but an accessible system for the 'net such as a
token system would be ideal.
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> Patrick
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