[e-gold-list] RE: Amazon

2001-06-21 Thread Samuel Mc Kee
I think the article is here http://www.skolnicksreport.com/hoodwink.html it's the 2nd last paragraph. Everybody be sure to read (or at least skim) the rest of his web site. The only thing missing are UFO abductions, black helicopters and credible sources. --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] ad banner chat

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Yahoo and Double click offer both untargetted, and targetted ads. Both work perfectly well in their own way. Indeed in the early days, both those services offered only untargetted ads. Yeah, and untargeted ads have horrible click-through rates. What are you referring to? No they don't.

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
part of that though would stem from the fact that you (banana people) don't have the overheads in terms of inventory and fulfillment.. Right -- in fact I lied anyway. It is almost inconceivable that BANANA would recover its development costs, so, its a loser. I have used banana gold a few

[e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
To reach people who have US Dollars: (i) advertise anywhere, on any medium. Whatever and wherever the ad was, it would reach only _some_ users and be unseen by most. It would suffer from the same weakness as an ad on a market-maker's page. I'm not exactly sure what you mean there. Someone

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Geoff
I used bananagold to place an order for a cd, the bananagold order went through in a matter of seconds, it then took Amazon over a week to get the order packed and shipped and on the status report it said deliver time would 12 to 24 days, it arrived 2 days later! This proves three things 1.

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
I used bananagold to place an order for a cd, the bananagold order went through in a matter of seconds, it then took Amazon over a week to get the order packed and shipped and on the status report it said deliver time would 12 to 24 days, it arrived 2 days later! This proves three things 1.

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Moore
I believe the excellent metalproxy.com guys already do BN, and I am not a brutal cut-throat competitor. Oh OK I did not know that...think I will stick with Bananagold anyway. The only way you can reach people who use e-gold...is on the e-gold mailing list. IS there an e-gold mailing

[e-gold-list] reach 'em

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
The only way you can reach people who use e-gold...is on the e-gold mailing list. IS there an e-gold mailing list??? Ah - I simply meant THIS MAILING LIST that we are chatting on, man! The only way to reach egold users for your new egold-related venture: this mailing list! Also

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Bob
Viking Coder wrote: The main question again is - Why should e-gold bother? To make money. That's the *point* to being in business. To *increase* gross revenue. To increase shareholders' value. They don't need the money, which is usually the primary reason for hosting advertising. Huh?

[e-gold-list] E-Gold and bringing it to the masses

2001-06-21 Thread Geoff
JPM and all Is there not some way we as e-gold listees cannot form some sort of co-operative to promote ourselves outside of the e-gold list, surely some cross promotion between ourselves can help. I am in the process of updating my generic web design business web site and will be making a big

[e-gold-list] RE: ads on spend page

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Green
I had better correct myself! I have tested a search on shop e*gold against shop e-gold and the 'e-gold' works correctly (on www.google.com or on www.ao.com.au), and therefore better than 'e*gold' which, although it ranks e-gold sites highly, it also includes sites simply about

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple fact: The only way you can reach people who use e-gold...is on the e-gold mailing list. Which is a sorry state of affairs. Particularly when something can be done about it. It's an absurd situation. What a great example of how to *hold back* e-gold

[e-gold-list] FWIW

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Here's another enterprise for the e-gold mailing list which rumours say may open soon. http://interestingsoftware.com/temp/comsoon2.gif http://interestingsoftware.com/temp/comsoon1.gif Looks like some sort of members site. (In the example I am crossed up and down against myself, which would

[e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
JP, why don't you call Doug and talk to him directly about advertising for this big Mega Corp you want to sell? --- 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: Amazon

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
Here's the paragraph from Sherman Skolnick: Another sizeable firm, amazon.com, according to some financial records experts, is actually bankrupt but is being presented by the Rockefeller banks as alive when amazon is actually dead. Smiling idiot wiseguy, Jeffrey Bezos, a publicity hypester and

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Green
Actually JP, you didn't lie. Your development costs are sunk costs. You are making profits in the present, although you have not yet broken even. There's no reason that it cannot grow beyond your expectations. Ian Green http://two-cents-worth.com/?107242 -Original Message- From:

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Green
Hi Michael, I have been using Barnes Noble (as well as Amazon) for e-gold customers for a couple of years and they have provided good service. I have even dealt with any of the Australian cc-based mail order companies for e-gold. I don't have an automated interface though, so my customers have

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Moore
Thanks Ian That is worth keeping in mind. Might be worthwhile instituting an interface Mike - Original Message - From: Ian Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: e-gold Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:18 PM Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for

[e-gold-list] e-gold advertising and businesses, Datek, Amazon, affiliate programs and what's good for the gold economy.

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Green
Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent this 59 minutes ago, and others I have sent more recently came through with only a few minutes delay. :~o -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 8:14 PM To: e-gold Discussion Subject:

[e-gold-list] e-gold advertising and businesses, Datek, Amazon, affiliate programs and what's good for the gold economy.

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Green
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 8:14 PM To: e-gold Discussion Subject: [e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips SNIP I'm not exactly sure what you mean there. Someone had said AH HA! there is

[e-gold-list] RE: e-gold advertising and businesses, Datek, Amazon, affiliate programs and what's good for the gold economy.

2001-06-21 Thread Samuel Mc Kee
I'm not exactly sure what you mean there. Someone had said AH HA! there is no SPECIFIC! MEDIUM! to reach people who use US Dollars. That statement is incorrect, since, 100% of people use US Dollars, so, any medium works. 100% of people do *not* use US Dollars. Furthermore, in order to

[e-gold-list] RE: e-gold advertising and businesses, Datek, Amazon, affiliate programs and what's good for the gold economy.

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
Moreover, by the any medium works reasoning, any medium works for reaching e-gold users. Don't most of us watch television or read newspapers? Try advertising in _Liberty_ or _Reason_. Another point, why would MegaCorp be overly worried about contacting the exisiting ~95,000 funded accounts

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
Do you believe that e-gold should keep it's growth rates slower than they can be? No, but there better ways of increasing the growth rate (currently @ ~30%/month) than polluting the spend page with advertising. Untargeted ads is what's needed. Then create a TV ad, take out full page ads

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread PowerClicks
As I mentioned in another post, why should MegaCorp be alienated when it cannot directly contact the existing ~95,000 funded account holders? It has a consumer base of millions that it can push an advertising campaign of a new exiciting way to buy our product/service without a credit card

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
why would merchants push a payment system which delays the sale? How does e-gold delay the sale? Viking Coder Worth Two Cents? http://www.two-cents-worth.com/?VikingCoder --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 14:15, Viking Coder wrote: why would merchants push a payment system which delays the sale? How does e-gold delay the sale? I guess he meant that the customer must first acquire some e-gold before he can spend it. A slower process than with a credit card. As a merchant

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

2001-06-21 Thread Steve Foerster
JP wrote: If anyone knows how to reach e-gold users, simply state it here: 50 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. Please donate the 50 Kg to the Ninth Amendment

[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

[e-gold-list] Spamming E-Gold accounts.

2001-06-21 Thread Vince Callaway
The idea hitting all of the e-gold accounts may seem like a good way to advertise except for 2 issues. First, how many of you actually look at your history (exchange providers excluded). Secondly, E-Gold does not notify people when money is placed in their account. Unless someone just happens

[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 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

[e-gold-list] ads schmads

2001-06-21 Thread Dave Turner
Targeting e-gold members through banner ads on e-gold's spend page won't solve anything. Banner ads don't work. Displaying them on the spend page would only be distracting to new account holders and annoying to established accounts. Most importantly, policy decisions regarding content

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

2001-06-21 Thread Ken Griffith
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. - Original Message - From: SnowDog [EMAIL

[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

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread PowerClicks
why would merchants push a payment system which delays the sale? How does e-gold delay the sale? I guess he meant that the customer must first acquire some e-gold before he can spend it. A slower process than with a credit card. Exactly. You must first acquire e-gold which is slow. The

[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: June 20, 2001 Yeah, it's a cool idea

[e-gold-list] Re: Spamming E-Gold accounts.

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Vince Callaway wrote: The idea hitting all of the e-gold accounts may seem like a good way to advertise except for 2 issues. First, how many of you actually look at your history (exchange providers excluded). Secondly, E-Gold does not notify people when money is placed in their

[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: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
PowerClicks wrote: why would merchants push a payment system which delays the sale? How does e-gold delay the sale? I guess he meant that the customer must first acquire some e-gold before he can spend it. A slower process than with a credit card. Exactly. You must first acquire

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread PowerClicks
As a merchant myself, I much prefer wiating for sfe e-gold than taking CC and being charge 3%. 3% uncapped and with the very real possibility that the transaction will be cancelled at any in the near future. True, but with egold you are placing all the extra cost and all the risks in the

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 21:12, PowerClicks wrote: True, but with egold you are placing all the extra cost and all the risks in the hand of the consumer. When you underdstand that the greater risk and costs is not with gold and gold currencies, but with national currencies that are constantly

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 21:09, PowerClicks wrote: Exactly. You must first acquire e-gold which is slow. The only way to do this relatively quickly if to fund using a credit card, but then what's the point? For e-gold and Goldmoney to reach the masses and replace credit cards in online payments,

[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 be added

[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 set-up

[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). Let

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Ewing
True, but with egold you are placing all the extra cost and all the risks in the hand of the consumer. When you underdstand that the greater risk and costs is not with gold and gold currencies, but with national currencies that are constantly debased, it becomes very easy to make the good

[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 solution

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 14:46, Paul Ewing wrote: No the risk to the customer is that they have no way to get their money back from a merchant in the case of a problem. When dealing with reputable merchant, the risk is almost non- existant. Claude http://www.goldcurrencies.ca

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 20:37, Julian Morrison wrote: Which will annoy the national governments enough that they'll likely try and legislate GCs into the ground, or at least tie them and regulate them and require so much snooping on the customers as to effectively nationalize them by default.

[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

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc. wrote: I am betting that we will see a massive move to gold and private money in the coming decade. Which will annoy the national governments enough that they'll likely try and legislate GCs into the ground, or at least tie them and regulate them and require so much

[e-gold-list] Monex

2001-06-21 Thread Tristan Petersen
I saw a commercial on television advertising gold. The company behind it was Monex (http://www.monex.com). Apparently, they sell gold coins and other precious metals. I sent them an email inquiring about their e-gold acceptance policy; Look at the reply I got. Did they even read my email? I don't

[e-gold-list] Gold Bugs vs the Masses (was egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips)

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Ewing
why would merchants push a payment system which delays the sale? How does e-gold delay the sale? I guess he meant that the customer must first acquire some e-gold before he can spend it. A slower process than with a credit card. Exactly. You must first acquire e-gold which is

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Ewing
No the risk to the customer is that they have no way to get their money back from a merchant in the case of a problem. When dealing with reputable merchant, the risk is almost non- existant. Convince the customers of that. One of the highest fears they have is that of using a credit

[e-gold-list] Re: Monex

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Ewing
It sounds like an auto-reply that the software sends out to any incoming mail. I really get a kick out of Monex. They have been running the same commercials on CNN for years. They sound great when the price of gold is on one of its spikes, but most of the time I hear them when it is heading

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
When dealing with reputable merchant, the risk is almost non- existant. You also don't have to worry about the merchant doing multiple spends, or a spend greater than what you authorized, out of your account. You also don't have to worry about somebody getting your card# and going wild with

[e-gold-list] Re: Gold Bugs vs the Masses (was egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips)

2001-06-21 Thread Vince Callaway
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Paul Ewing wrote: [snip] It doesn't look good as a money store. You pay 1% to keep the account and then hope that the price of gold doesn't drop reducing your account value. Your money store has to work extra hard to just keep up with [/snip] I will let all of you in

[e-gold-list] Re: Gold Bugs vs the Masses (was egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips)

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
So you dump in a wodge of money and use it in small amounts until you need to refill. On 21 Jun 2001, at 15:35, Paul Ewing wrote: How many people do this? Especially people new to the system? Many do accumulate gold currencies to spend them at later date. I have many customers on my GAP

[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 statements,

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread PowerClicks
So you dump in a wodge of money and use it in small amounts until you need to refill. And it's useful as a money store and a means to speculate on gold as well. Hardly rocket science. So how much do you dump? $100, $1000, $1, more? You are assuming everyone is bullish on gold. Apart

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 22:25, PowerClicks wrote: So how much do you dump? $100, $1000, $1, more? You are assuming everyone is bullish on gold. Long term... being bullish on gold is the only thing that make sense. Apart from exchange risk, to use it as a money store you need the trust

[e-gold-list] Re: ad banner chat

2001-06-21 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 21 Jun 2001, at 15:56, Paul Ewing wrote: Search engines and word-of-mouth have done much, much better than banners for me. Not only for you... Claude http://www.goldcurrencies.ca http://www.ormetal.com == Claude Cormier Public Key

[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 choose the

[e-gold-list] Suggestion

2001-06-21 Thread Eric J. Gaither
Hello, I keep reading this all day long in my Outlook Express inbox: Re: [e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips Now, I realize this is the subject heading that one person put in and multiple people are just clicking reply to send a reply and therefore carrying the

[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

[e-gold-list] Re: Suggestion

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Moore
After reading that e-gold is a shit currency for scams and hyips about four hundred times I am starting to believe it because I am being *subconsciously forced* to believe as such! Eric Gaither, President Very true Eric.Time we changed to a more positive note. If it was that

[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: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
If they want a halfass currency with elastic attached, which they can jerk back out of the merchant's hands post facto, then the *merchants* will be quite justified in telling them to take a running jump, once they see an alternative is available. DING, DING, DING!!! We have a winner! The

[e-gold-list] Notifications

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: 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-list] New E-Gold SPAM - Payment System

2001-06-21 Thread SnowDog
I want e-gold to remain a currency, plain and simple. I don't want them to turn into some sort of ad house/paid-to-read program. Let e-gold ltd. do what it does best, be a accounting system for it's private digital currency. I think you're missing the point a little bit. I think what we're

[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 turning it off or

[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] User settable minimum spend?

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Here's another thought. For those who're appalled by the idea of spamdonations and the fact that it's currently unstoppable, here's another thought: egold could let you lock down how much minimum you're willing to recieve in each of the metal types, anything above the absolute floor which is

[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 special

[e-gold-list] What'd I win?

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: If they want a halfass currency with elastic attached, which they can jerk back out of the merchant's hands post facto, then the *merchants* will be quite justified in telling them to take a running jump, once they see an alternative is available. DING, DING,

[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: New E-Gold SPAM - Payment System

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
I think you're missing the point a little bit. No. I am not. I completely understand what is being proposed. implent a new function which will give businesses the option of spamming the entire e-gold list of email addresses by PAYING the receivers to receive their email messages! This

[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 ways.

[e-gold-list] Re: New E-Gold SPAM - Payment System

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: Leave e-gold alone! Let it be a currency PERIOD It already is vulnerable to push spamming. All of my suggestions at least are simply ways to moderate this vulnerability, although some others have suggested expanding the vulnerability, which I disagree with. I agree with

[e-gold-list] Re: What'd I win?

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
Oo, oo, what'd I win? :-D A goldfish. Delivery will cost 1Kg gold. :) The consumer gets a method of spending over the internet that doesn't leave them wide open for fraud. Their account can only accessed if they allow it. Read one of my other posts before responding to that last

[e-gold-list] Re: New E-Gold SPAM - Payment System

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
SnowDog wrote: I want e-gold to remain a currency, plain and simple. I don't want them to turn into some sort of ad house/paid-to-read program. Let e-gold ltd. do what it does best, be a accounting system for it's private digital currency. I think you're missing the point a little

[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 completely

[e-gold-list] ahh! now it's clear

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Then create a TV ad, take out full page ads in the major newspapers of the world, or put banner ads up on DoubleClick/Yahoo/etc. Leave the spend page clean of advertising. Ah, Viking --- your (unprecedented) utter lack of logic (you'll be talking about global warming next!) is now explained

[e-gold-list] clever

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
JP wrote: If anyone knows how to reach e-gold users, simply state it here: 50 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. Good idea, but I tried it already. I used a

[e-gold-list] Re: What'd I win?

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: Oo, oo, what'd I win? :-D A goldfish. Delivery will cost 1Kg gold. :) Don't kid, there are probably Koi carp worth that much... The problem that sparked this whole discussion is that it's trivial to *push* money into people's accounts without their permission.

[e-gold-list] Re: New E-Gold SPAM - Payment System

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
It already is vulnerable to push spamming. Which I don't see a problem with. If somebody wants to try to contact in the memo field, they are pretty desperate to get ahold of me. There is no guarantee that I'll check my account and notice the few extra tenths of milligram. I agree with you

[e-gold-list] Re: clever

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea, but I tried it already. I used a pool of known e-gold accounts to test how many people would read the message. Only one did out of ~ 80 tests. Next? One in eighty is a droolable return rate on blind spam. --- You are currently subscribed to

[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] You're talking

[e-gold-list] default is off

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
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

[e-gold-list] magnificent idea

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
If you went this route -- to allow 'Spam Spends' -- then a category could be set-up by E-Gold for such a spend, which WOULD be broadcast simultaneously to each receiver through their e-mail address, BUT E-Gold would have to allow each receiver the option of charging a business to send this type

[e-gold-list] Re: clever

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Spencer
Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message in the memo field. Good idea, but I tried it already. I used a pool of known e-gold accounts to test how many people would read the message. Only one did out of ~ 80 tests. You asked for a way to reach e-gold users.

[e-gold-list] fair enough

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
I want e-gold to remain a currency, plain and simple. I don't want them to turn into some sort of ad house/paid-to-read program. Let e-gold ltd. do what it does best, be a accounting system for it's private digital currency. That's fair enough -- but that means that non-cottage industries

[e-gold-list] Dave talks sense

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Dave, I appreciate your cogent message. However, consider this: Banner ads don't work I don't agree and many people don't agree. I've found they work very well. Big businesses can be built around them. annoying to established accounts. I'm all for an off switch if anyone doesn't want it.

[e-gold-list] turn 'em off!

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Because an intelligent discussion doesn't center around people just screaming YOUR IDEA SUCKS! TPPHHHH!!! - YEAH? WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW? back and forth at each other. :) fair enough .. {It seems like a non-starter - we all hate adverts and wish there were none on TV, magazines or

[e-gold-list] Re: turn 'em off!

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just saying there exists no non-cottage-industry EREs. Hence, e-gold should say since e-gold is currently only used for HYIPs (let's call a spade a spade) and a couple of novelty sites, and we really want some non-cottage-industry egold related enterprises,

[e-gold-list] Re: default is off

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Sure, you would have no interest in knowing that etrade now take egold, or that walmart.com now takes egold, or that Sprint just decided to let you pay by egold. I, and the rest of the world, would very quickly find out if some MegaCorp, like Sprint, started accepting e-gold. Do you think

[e-gold-list] it is unlikely that essages in spends are not the answer for General Electric

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
Autospend 1 mg to each user in numeric sequence and put your message in the memo field. Good idea, but I tried it already. I used a pool of known e-gold accounts to test how many people would read the message. Only one did out of ~ 80 tests. You asked for a way to reach e-gold users.

[e-gold-list] Re: turn 'em off!

2001-06-21 Thread Viking Coder
I think you have it back assward there. What e-gold should do is say hey, currently were excellently suited to cottage industries - and small web vendors are a vast market in aggregate. Lets push e-gold as the ultimate way to run a mom-and-pop shop! Yes. The only companies willing to accept

[e-gold-list] e-gold is mom and pop.

2001-06-21 Thread jpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just saying there exists no non-cottage-industry EREs. Hence, e-gold should say since e-gold is currently only used for HYIPs (let's call a spade a spade) and a couple of novelty sites, and we really want some non-cottage-industry egold related enterprises, we

[e-gold-list] Re: turn 'em off!

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Morrison
Viking Coder wrote: [...]Everybody keeps saying how powerful the gold economy will be several years from now, and then coming up with schemes to make it pre-maturely happen today. Agreed, it's a bad idea to rush adoption speed - you need a minimum number of *working* *trusted* sites taking

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