Subj : Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Apr 12 2023 06:35 pm

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 -=> Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW> What Jaron Lanier was talking about was a micropayment system where you
 KW> could compensate content on the web, in payments of fraction of cents
 KW> to sub-dollar amounts on a one-time basis to content creators in an
 KW> unstructured way - imagine seeing a relevant post on Linkedin and
 KW> having the like button transfer 10 cents to the author. readers forward
 KW> and share the content. Scale takes care of the rest.

You'd die in bank processing fees alone.  I mean, you could use Paypal for
that; why reinvent the wheel?  Too many new sysops don't understand that
things work the way they do for many reasons.  Like I said, every five
years or so, all of this "BBS newthink" crops up and it disappears just as
fast as it appears.

What I'd like is people to actually produce proof-of-concept instead of talk
but as usual, nothing happens...

For me, getting everything working on FreeBSD was adventure enough.

-- Sean

.... Not tonight, dear.  I have a modem.
--- MMail/FreeBSD
 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)

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