[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Daniel R. Tobias<dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhonson at aol.com wrote:
>
>> You're right.  Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue.
>> That nothing "free" is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it.
>> IIRC we basically agreed that traveling about, is just part of your
>> normal life.
>
> So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of
> only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole
> Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there
> to check it.

You could e-mail them and ask them to open the book at the right page
and put it in front of their webcam? They do still have a continuously
streaming live webcam, right? Or am I thinking of some other remote
research station?

Carcharoth