h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...PAY for it???

...I'll BUY it!!!

Where do i send the cheque?

Please send all cheques and donations to:

Save the Croz Fund
PO BOX somethingorother

I'd pay for it as it is now.

However I suspect making it a pay sight would cost us a lot of researchers and the site would suffer for it.

Maybe to the point I'd no longer be willing to pay for it.

Catch-22 no?

Might do.

If only people who paid could see the articles then probably not. I want lots of people to read what I write (ego? what ego?) and the guide in general, so restricting access to it would make the project pointless to me.

If payment just gave the the right have an account then yep I'd pay a bit. Every now and then I like to shove my oar in, and I'm not above paying the BBC to publish me

D

Look at it this way. You can get the encycopedia galactica for free (since its not been written yet) and we all know hitchikers should be slightly cheaper.

So why am I not being paid to be here!

Some of us do pay for h2g2 - it's part of the licence fee.

There was a conversation about this what seems like years ago. I did try to find it, but I got bored because the search is v e r y s l o w today.

Ooh - hello, old Mina.

"...PAY for it???

...I'll BUY it!!!"

Bear in mind you'd also have to buy some assorted Italics who would then be jobless and don't have many survival skills in the real world.

B

Licence fee? Licence fee? Oh yeah, that thing...

Why , is it for sale?




pedboy® (ACE) (E.A.T.S) (P.U.D.D.I.N.G) (MOSV)

Then again some of us do get paid for being here, eh?

I owe you my thanks for this one though - you have made my job of persuading the rest of this household that they want to split for a license infintely easier

Aak 4 post simulpost

I too was under the impression I'd already paid for it when I pay my licence fee. Mind you, I pay for the Queen and her houses, and that doesn't stop them trying to make me pay twice to see them.

Sorry to say this but I'm afarid I say NO to the question because it goes against the grain for me to pay for something that is "on the whole " kept going by the researchers.

Now if the BBC wanted to make money out of it they could try polls using the researchers as the people to be polled and then sell the results.

H2 still has a "secret society" feel about it which I like. If it suddenly became very very popular I'm sure the BBC would have no doubts about cashing in.

I pay for it twice already The first is the Beebs unique method of funding, a tax disguised as a license fee. Then I have to pay a monthly fee for my Broadband connection.

What sort of Service Level Agreements would the Beeb consider if a fee was going to be applied? You don't get money for nothing (unless you get the proceeds of a tax disguised as a license fee).

Since the fee you pay to your ISP gets you access to the entire web, then that can hardly be said to be paying for h2g2, unless the BBC is your ISP and h2g2 is the only website you ever visit. And your licence fee also gets you BBC tv and radio - you don't pay the entire licence fee just for h2g2 (although it might just about stretch to all the and that the Italics get through in a wek ).

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Picky!!

Ok. Part of the unique funding method otherwise known as a tax goes towards the H2G2 site and part of the cost of my ISP can be regarded as the only route I have to H2G2 so should be included in the access costs. Without either fee I would not have access to H2G2.

How that then? I'm still paying two fees.

Hey all I ever visit is h2g2 - maybe the beeb should set up an ISP for this site only and make it cheaper than the competition?

As I understand it we need a lot of hardware we don't own to get access to the internet (like all these cable majigs and satlites about the place and so on) so we pay an internet fee to allow us to use this hardware to get a line of communication. Then you need to make individual agreements to see what information people are willing to send you.

So its like a telephone call, getting a telephone line put in and paying the line rental allows you to phone anyone you want. However they are under no obligation to give you any information or even to answer the phone - unless they want to, either because they are a friend or nice person or get paid to man a tech support line all day.