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> (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical Seems to me a very good reason to go ahead! It' less about the w
by ptbello 14y ago
> (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
Seems to me a very good reason to go ahead! It' less about the what and more about the how.
> (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
I don't see any problem there - all it takes is an automated response with a PayPal link
> (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
They are out of target anyway; this idea applies super-busy/famous people who can afford to lose a few messages.
- dsr_ 14y agoSo what happens when everyone adopts slightly incompatible variants of this system? Endless loops of "Please pay me 2 cents via PayPal so I will read your message with the Subject: Please pay me 3 cents via PayPal" Oh, you'll put in an exception for those messages? Next message is from your mother. You're going to charge her 2 cents? Ah, whitelists. Management problem. Also: PayPal can't efficiently handle micropayments. (Well, for 33 cents apiece, they will.) So you need your own micropayment system. Which will be incompatible with your prospective customer's micropayment...