Re: being paid for FAQ maintenance

Dave Schweisguth (dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu)
Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:16:13 -0500 (EST)

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Eric writes:
> This is quite different from the original thread, which was more of a
> professional/non-private nature, but recently, a few people on the
> newsgroup I maintain the FAQ for have been throwing around the idea of
> sending "private donations" or something to a few people who spend a lot of
> time & effort on their web pages, FAQ, etc... It seems likes a really weird
> idea to just have a few people's addresses stuck up their asking for
> donations, but I certainly wouldn't mind receiving money for what I do...
> :> Then again, it may go against many beliefs of appropriate use of 'net
> resources, etc... <shrug> Is there a tactful way of going about something
> like this? Has anyone else done this?

A for-profit publication recently asked the SGI FAQ group for permission to
reprint FAQ entries. (They wrote to us not because they were concerned that
they were an eeeevil money-making outfit, but because our boilerplate allows
free reproduction only of entire unaltered FAQs.) It certainly occurred to me
to ask for standard payment rates, but we didn't, because our intellectual
property boundaries are hopeless. There are nine FAQ editors at the moment,
plus alumni, plus regular contributors who aren't actual editors, plus our
login account/WWW server host, with whom none of the present editors have any
professional connection! What on earth could we do with a (not very large)
check without ruffling someone's feathers?

Cheers,

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