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   Message 26,151 of 27,972   
   JF Mezei to Warren Oates   
   Re: Globe and Mail will charge for acces   
   11 May 12 14:07:12   
   
   From: jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca   
      
   Warren Oates wrote:   
      
   > The NYT has an interesting model: you can read up to a dozen article per   
   > month before the "paywall" kicks in.   
      
      
   Globe will do the same but won't say how many articles people can read   
   for free.   
      
   On freally wonders how much revenue they will raise from subscripions if   
   the only impact will be that people will stop reading once they hit the   
   paywall.   
      
   There should be a law against puttihg up advertising on the paywall.   
   "sorry, you can't see the advertising unless yo pay, but we'll still   
   make momey by throwing advertusing at you".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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