At 10:11 AM 24/09/2002 -0400, David Beroff wrote: >I have *no* argument with any of the above solutions, other than that they >are all compensating for a basic feature that e-gold should provide directly. >More to the point, you only get the email feature if you use one of these >alternatives. > >The last time I sat down and calculated it, e-gold was earning over a US$ >million >per year in agio and spend fees. This is money coming from about a half >million >paying clients, who collectively have a right to make such reasonable >requests. >This feature would cost around US$100 to implement correctly, and would help >improve e-gold's position as a "real" currency alternative. So, what am I >missing?
David, I think there are more costs than just the coding, like the ongoing server load and bandwidth usage. So it is stretching it a little to suggest it is simply a matter of spending USD$100. Also, anyone can use these other free services already to achieve e-mail notification, but if I am not wrong you suggested that ALL the details be e-mailed by default ALL the time. I don't know about you, but I believe that many users would consider that to be a very real security concern. If the security aspects were to be dealt with, and the possibility of other e-mails impersonating e-gold transaction reports, then we would be back at the position of having a service that only a subset of (technically savvy) users would be able to implement, that is, via the e-gold Shopping Cart Interface (SCI). Whether you have an e-mail that suggests a transaction has been made or not, you still need to verify for yourself that you really have received the funds. Until encryption and authentication issues can be dealt with, an e-mailed transaction report may be a useful prompt, but it cannot be relied upon. Better that it contained no details! Ian Green http://two-cents-worth.com/?107242&EG http://iangreen.2cw.org/ http://ao.com.au/e-gold.htm --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
