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   PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.8.3 (FreeBSD-amd64)   
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   TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8.3 (FreeBSD-amd64)   
   -=> 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   
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