On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:28:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, "Jon" == Jon Hall wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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