Seth Godin thinks Slashdot is onto something:

“Slashdot.org is now offering a service where you get no ads for about $5 a month. Yahoo sees more than a 100 million users a month. Can you imagine how profitable they'd be if we all just paid them $5 and never again had to see the Classmates ad? Never had to “close window” in order to get back to our e-mail…I'd pay. Would you? “