Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:54:51 +0200, Marc Schimmler
> <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:
> 
> >During the last advertising of the IRTC CD-ROM by Chris Cason Greg M.
> >Johnson suggested a very good idea (my opinion). He asked if it would be
> >also helping povray.org if the povray users would place their homepages
> >on povray.org and allowed some advertising. Chris seemed to be
> >interested but no response came!
> 
>   Hi, Marc. Thanks for mentioning Chris' post. If I had web pages and had to
> pay my ISP for the space on their servers I'd rather pay the money for space
> on the POV-Ray server and help support it at the same time. It just makes
> sense!
> 
>   People shouldn't be surprised to learn that the system that hosts these
> newsgroups and povray.org wasn't donated to the POV-Team by some generous
> benefactor. Neither are the developer tools that the POV-Team uses to bring
> us our beloved POV-Ray. It just seems ironic that the POV-Team must spend
> its own money, sometimes hundreds of dollars, to bring us a *freeware*
> product. No one on the POV-Team is aiming to get rich. That's not why they
> are involved with POV-Ray. They would just like to be able to get closer to
> breaking even.
> 
>   If anyone else would be interested in purchasing web space why don't we
> let Chris know so that he can determine whether this is worth his time, in
> terms of the number of potential customers that frequent this newsgroup.
> Count me in.
> 
> --
> Alan
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Hi Alan!

I just cite the original post from Greg and Chris:

Greg:
"Since you have your own server, would you be able to set up personal
web pages and
sell (tactfully placed) ads? Would this enable more revenue to you, or
just be a
headache?"

Chris:
"Yes, we can do both. I'm unsure how much demand there would be for it.
What do
others think ?"


If we find a way to get a new HD and to improve the bandwidth while
earning enough money to pay the whole server operation it would be fine
I guess. The people that show up at povray are most of the time ideal
for graphics software ads (well educated and interested in the subject,
all ages). The main problem would be to get the starting money (selling
more IRTC CD-ROMs?) and to reduce the workload for Chris which I fear
spends a lot of time for us (thank you Chris!).
We might even start with some selected pages on the existing server that
could attract some ads that would allow to open the service to more
people. 
As I said it might be an idea and I would be interested to hear from
Chris.


All the Best,

Marc
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Marc Schimmler

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