From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 14 18:41:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06FF37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f5F1f4617538; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:41:09 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010614170327.O99558@toldme.com> References: <20010614170327.O99558@toldme.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:40:55 +0200 To: dannyman , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: questions answered w paypal "tips" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:03 PM -0700 6/14/01, dannyman wrote: > Then it occurs to me that since, with PayPal, you just click "send > money" and put in an e-mail address ... I could post a frustrating > question, and offer $n to the first person to answer it to my > satisfaction. [ ... deletia ... ] > Well, anyway, I'm just tossing this at chat. Maybe it excites somebody, > maybe someone is already doing this. There are already websites that do this sort of thing, if not with actual (or virtual) money, then at least with /.-style "karma", which you can accumulate and use for things like asking your own questions, posting advertisements, etc.... I was a member of a web community like this for a brief period of time, and I could see that some people spent a *lot* of time on the site, and racked up quite a lot of points. Indeed, I wonder if some of them weren't trying to actually make this their full-time job. However, for me, it got boring and I left. I don't know how this sort of thing would translate to a mailing list. Perhaps if you set up a separate but affiliated list, and tied it in with a web site and other community-building exercises (somewhat akin to what Amazon tries very hard to do), you might be able to build it into a success. Or not. I dunno. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message