This is getting even further off topic, but the first person who figures out how to make micro payments with regard to the web will make a killing.
There are a lot of newsletters, donations, etc. that I would be more than willing to pay $0.25 or more to on a regular basis, but there is no way, that I know of to do it. For example set up a monthy bill of $40-$50 that I pay that I can definable where it goes (x to debian, y to EFF, z to newsletter, etc.). When you get into smaller amounts, transaction fees start to make it unreasonable. Maybe something like this is out there and I just don't know about it. Anyone? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/28/02 at 1:27 PM Chuck Peters wrote: >I think it depends a lot on who uses it. We have an ethical use for some >mass email distribution software. > >My friend Kathy Miles writes a weekly column and publishes it on the web >at http://StarrySkies.com and we sometimes get requests to send it via >email. We have tossed around the idea of setting up something to mail the >articles weekly, but I haven't really looked into setting it up mostly >because we aren't making any money with the site. > >If anyone has any suggestion as to how we can ethically make money with >the site, please let us know. > >Thanks, >Chuck > >On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, jogi hofmueller wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> hi! >> >> the following is not technical but more ethical or so. >> >> recently i was asked to develop some sort of mass email distribution >> software for someone sending monthly newsletters about music events to a >> list of about 3000 addresses. now, before getting too deep into >> reading/searching information i would like to hear some statements about >> this because since i think about this 'project' i am torn between >> thinking of it as 'good idea' and 'spam-tool'. >> >> i know that everyone hates spam. therefore i think the idea to put a >> mailing-list-like mechanism with automated (un)subscribe procedure behind >> such a thing would be not so bad because it would make it possible to >> really unsubscribe from a list where i don't want to get anymore mails >> from. >> >> i would be glad to get some feedback here. >> >> sincerely >> - -- >> j.h. >> jogi hofmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> GPG-public-key: http://mur.at/~jogi/text/public.key.txt >> GPG-key-ID: B972CEC1 >> Key fingerprint = 2CD5 4786 AA9E F315 6430 868F 00FA E375 B972 CEC1 >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Made with pgp4pine >> >> iD8DBQE8VYB6APrjdblyzsERAthmAKCjptcHpTNwLfWRMvbIM8dKb6MbNwCgxbYQ >> esjiBLqVuZX1YwYm5kCZtEw= >> =/3H/ >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lang Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. -- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
