On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they
> still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they
> had slowed down and used traditional business techniques such as
> cost/benefit analysis to prioritise functionality
spam has a high cost/benefit ratio... :(
> taking a random site - lastminute.com
spammers.
> i just went there, no their business model is essentially - sell
> stuff at the last minute, generally targetting people with
> disposable income
and spamming.
> so i look at their site, they have chatroom functionality! why?
> why does a site selling this sort of thing need chatroom
> functionality? what is the benefit compared to its cost
well, quite. So you can chat about how crap they are. And of course,
because everyone else is doing it, so we have to too. :(
MBM
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