mark at zopemag
Aug 22, 2004, 11:45 AM
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I am reposting this and another email which I don't believe were
delivered to this mailinglist.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Mark <mark [at] zopemag>
> Date: August 21, 2004 10:46:37 PM CEST
> To: Chris Withers <chris [at] simplistix>
> Subject: Re: [ZWeb] "Zope Exits"
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Aug 21, 2004, at 7:11 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
>
>> The rest comprise ZopeMag, which is a teaser site for paid for
>> content,
>
> If I read this again on this mailinglist I'm going to puke. ZopeMag is
> the "only"
> Zope Magazine. Period. We are not a teaser site for paid for content.
>
> We are at a rate now of publishing about three to four articles for
> free each quarter.
> That's proportionally a fair share of the articles we publish. The
> free articles that we publish are pretty darn popular but go ahead
> make it more difficult for people to realize that this
> resource exists. At the rate we are going almost 1000 people will be
> subscribers. Obviously there is a demand for the service we provide.
> Obviously people are happy to pay for docs.
>
> Are you trying to be deliberately offensive?
>
>> and ZEA, which from what I know of it, operates as a "bidding
>> collective" that Paul runs now.
>
> That's not really fair to the ZEA by any means but I'm sure others can
> defend their link.
>
>> There'sd also Plone.org, which is a pure single-product site. It does
>> seem to be a bit out of place given the lack of other product links
>> (CPS, Silva, or even Squishdot ;-)
>
> That's certainly worthwhile discussing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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