Re: Signal to Noise Ration on DBDebunk Declining

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:3fQjd.30$wh6.53_at_news.oracle.com...
> "Alfredo Novoa" <anovoa_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
> news:10fvo09ueclp5dt45st17rg7a5b2qlprlv_at_4ax.com...
> > No, but most of the "signal" was moved to the "$$$ area".
>
> $ for a content is certainly a reasonable demand.
>
> My late experience, however, is that there is no correlation between content
> quality and $. Some of the math books I've bought recently are vastly
> inferior to the jems that are freely downloadable on the net. As far as
> ordinary articles are concerned, the situation today is quite clear: publish
> it to be freely available, or nobody would bother reading it.

Indeed. When you consider the volume of stuff on citeseer, one becomes less interested in paying for content.

Marshall Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 00:43:41 CET