On May 29, 2008 at 06:08 joelja@bogus.com (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
To paraphrase one of my colleagues from the user interaction world:
"The key to offering a compelling service is minimising transaction hassles."
I encourage all my competitors to implement inconvenient hard to use payment methods....
One way of describing it is "minimizing transaction hassles". Another way of describing it is "monetizing others' hassles", let them spend on bandwidth, firewalls, personnel, etc, to deal with my customers' spamming. That's the arbitrage we're currently deaing with. But you're right, there was no good reason for tobacco companies to concern themselves with the cost of health effects of their products for many, many years, it wasn't their problem. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*