[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-27 Thread breamar
Great idea, Steve. Seems to me though that it would only work if you've got that kind of money. But then, if you did, wouldn't there be better uses for it? --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: > > > > There are two ways that a program like this could be implemented. > > > [...] > > > > There are other ways. The simplest: > > > > [x] notify me by email for spends worth more than [1] [USD] > > [ ] do not let me recieve any spend worth less than [__0.1] [USD] >

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Spencer
Steve Foerster wrote: > > JP wrote: > > < kilogram gold reward to anyone who can state how to reach e-gold users. > State it.>> > > Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message > in the memo field. JP, I think you owe the man 50kg. CCS --- You are currently subscri

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
> > There are two ways that a program like this could be implemented. > > [...] > > There are other ways. The simplest: > > [x] notify me by email for spends worth more than [1] [USD] > [ ] do not let me recieve any spend worth less than [__0.1] [USD] You're talking about something comple

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: > > > giving businesses the option to SPAM E-Gold's Email Addresses > > Am I the only one who doesn't want e-gold to officially turn into yet > another place to receive SPAM from? > > There are two ways that a program like this could be implemented. > [...] There are other

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
> giving businesses the option to SPAM E-Gold's Email Addresses Am I the only one who doesn't want e-gold to officially turn into yet another place to receive SPAM from? There are two ways that a program like this could be implemented. A one-time payment for an account holder's email address.

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001.

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
SnowDog wrote: > > > Spam their *accounts* - an importat distinction; everyone gets it, not > > everyone gets emailed about it. The others will still see it in theor > > statements, if they bother reading them. > > Actually, I was thinking it would be more elaborate than that: It would be a > sp

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001.

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> Spam their *accounts* - an importat distinction; everyone gets it, not > everyone gets emailed about it. The others will still see it in theor > statements, if they bother reading them. Actually, I was thinking it would be more elaborate than that: It would be a special function that could be

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001.

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
SnowDog wrote: > > > Only trouble wth this is that the ad people are blinded to the amount > > they need to spend. Perhaps another of those nifty graphs of > > accounts-by-mass? > > > > So for e-gold what they should do is > > > > - allow email notifies of spends along with the memo > > - allow t

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> Only trouble wth this is that the ad people are blinded to the amount > they need to spend. Perhaps another of those nifty graphs of > accounts-by-mass? > > So for e-gold what they should do is > > - allow email notifies of spends along with the memo > - allow turning it off or setting a minimum

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
> So it's offered as an option in the setup screens, "notify me if > somebody pays me", and the default is "don't". Spends will still go onto > the statements, they just won't result in users recieving emails. That still requires e-gold to spend time & resources on making e-gold a better get-paid

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
SnowDog wrote: > > > > All who want e-gold to be turned into a get-paid-to-read-mail program, > > > please raise your hand. > > > > With the idea of spamdonations being out there now and trivial to > > implement, I see little way to prevent it. > > I think everyone would go for it, if they could

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> > All who want e-gold to be turned into a get-paid-to-read-mail program, > > please raise your hand. > > With the idea of spamdonations being out there now and trivial to > implement, I see little way to prevent it. I think everyone would go for it, if they could choose the amount of gold that

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: > > Being forced to dig around in the acct pages just to turn off that > 'convenience' would also annoy the hell out of people. So it's offered as an option in the setup screens, "notify me if somebody pays me", and the default is "don't". Spends will still go onto the statem

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
> On the other hand, making people pay to avoid being spammed by some > official list will just annoy the hell out of them, and make them switch > to GoldMoney. Being forced to dig around in the acct pages just to turn off that 'convenience' would also annoy the hell out of people. A new user cre

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Ken Griffith wrote: > > Yeah, it's a cool idea if someone does it to you once. But, if you start > getting five to ten ad spends a day it will clutter up your financial > statements real fast. I think I would get pretty po'ed about it. But it is > possible now, isn't it. There's a good soluti

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread twpmarket
>The idea here is that E-Gold could set the price to allow businesses to >'Broadcast' messages to ALL account holders which subscribe to this >service,(and subscriptions would be added automatically, requiring the >user to turn them OFF manually -- maybe even at a cost to the account >holder).

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> There's a good solution to this: e-gold should add the ability to > categorize spends so as to make agregating or ignoring a slew of > spamdonations easier. "show all, show spams, show MMs, show > purchases..." etc. If you went this route -- to allow 'Spam Spends' -- then a category could be se

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
SnowDog wrote: > > > 2) Any business could use the feature, but they would have to pay E-Gold > for > > its use. > > The idea here is that E-Gold could set the price to allow businesses to > 'Broadcast' messages to ALL account holders which subscribe to this service, > (and subscriptions would b

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> 2) Any business could use the feature, but they would have to pay E-Gold for > its use. The idea here is that E-Gold could set the price to allow businesses to 'Broadcast' messages to ALL account holders which subscribe to this service, (and subscriptions would be added automatically, requiring

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Ken Griffith
On the bright side, actually getting paid for spam is a nice concept. - Original Message - From: "SnowDog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest:

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> Yeah, it's a cool idea if someone does it to you once. But, if you start > getting five to ten ad spends a day it will clutter up your financial > statements real fast. I think I would get pretty po'ed about it. But it is > possible now, isn't it. OK, E-Gold could add a feature to their webs

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Ken Griffith
From: "SnowDog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:47 PM Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001 > > Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message > > in

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message > in the memo field. Steve, I think this is a brilliant idea -- especially if E-Gold would ad code to send an email message to a customer when they receive a payment! "You've been Paid! Buy anything from Amazon.com at www.Ban

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
> Nice try Steve > But would it be cost effective?? :-) > 95,000mg is a lot of gold...isn't it? No, that's 95 grams -- about $800 USD. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Geoff
Nice try Steve But would it be cost effective?? :-) 95,000mg is a lot of gold...isn't it? Geoff - Original Message - From: "Steve Foerster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:47 PM Subject:

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold-list digest: June 20, 2001

2001-06-21 Thread Steve Foerster
JP wrote: <> Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message in the memo field. Please donate the 50 Kg to the Ninth Amendment Foundation, e-gold account number 9. Thanks, -=Steve=- Stephen H. Foerster, COO 3PSecure.com, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http