On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:28:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>>>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, "Jon" == Jon Hall wrote: > > Jon> "One of the features prominently advertised by Intuit for > Jon> QuickBooks 2001 was the ability to send invoices via e-mail," > Jon> says Ms. Billings. "With this latest update, I had to accept > Jon> a new TOS [Terms of Service] agreement in order to keep using > Jon> this feature. > > Hmmm, I know this is probably way beyond the grasp of the average > user like "Ms. Billings", however, couldn't she choose to print the > invoice, select "print to file" and mail the postscript file herself?
That avoids the convenience factor. > That's what I'd do to get around this. Why in the world would anyone > want to have this type of e-mail go through an unknown mail server > like Intuit's? Of course, non-geeks are likely to be completely > clueless as to how e-mail works, never mind what servers their e-mail > travels through. A majority of the computer-related issues that crop up (this, DECSS, RIAA, etc.) take more than two sentances to explain. If it can't be summed up in a soundbite (Napster steals money from artists!) the press can't make a good story out of it, and the general press doesn't care. > Hmmm, I don't suppose there's the option to encrypt said invoices > *before* mailing it out, huh? Of course, that would pre-suppose that > each party created and supplied the invoicing user with a public > encryption key. GPG anyone? But personal encryption is a hard sell. > I don't like the USPS overly much, but at least (AFAIK), they don't > currently read my mail as it passes through their facilities :) I think that people assume that e-mail=USPS. In some ways it is, but not enough to make them equal. -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
