[e-gold-list] Re: We want your password

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
Now let me see a show of hands: How many clicked on the link provided and visited the supposed e-gold site. Hum mm. Ok. Now let me see a show of hands of those that went to the site using a proxy server to mask there IP address so they wouldn't make a hack target of themselves.

[e-gold-list] Re: eCurrency Trade Association Inc.

2001-06-20 Thread Jess
Come on Chris he's from Australia, the education system here is woeful. ;-) Most people here pay more than 67% of their income in taxes and they think they're on a good deal. By the way if you want to convey the truth using English grammar you better start using prepositional phases as the

[e-gold-list] 2 cents link target=_blank was RE: Viking Coder

2001-06-20 Thread Ian Green
Hi Chris, Why does the target need to be _blank (or blank, depending on which of the links you used in another of your messages)? Besides, links like these I snipped out of your other message don;t even work in plain text e-mail. I know one is able to copy and paste it into a browser, but I am

[e-gold-list] here we go again..

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
Osopps offers proven investments (see http://www.osopps.com ). There is no mention of High Yield investments. Are you saying that it is impossible to guarantee an investment? Of course: it is not possible to guarantee any investment... Eve

[e-gold-list] freaking two cents

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
Hey you ranters - here's a link to the person who invented the whole two cents thing! is that worth two cents?? http://two-cents-worth.com/?241164 Hi Chris, Why does the target need to be _blank (or blank, depending on which of the links you used in another of your messages)? Besides,

[e-gold-list] ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
Is there a listing for all of these somewhere? I still have a hard time convincing businesses to take e-gold for my purchases. Pssibly I am buying from the wrong companies if thousands are accepting it? No, I don't know of thousands of businesses accepting e-gold. However, the point I am

[e-gold-list] egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
It should attract real businesses, instead of scams and porn sites! Exactly. I don't know how crystal clear it can be: As an example, which I've explained to Jim: (1) a real-world major online brokerage approached my company and said we want to totally adopt this e-gold stuff, it sounds

[e-gold-list] ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
It's worth remember the straight talk aspect here - until e-gold sells banner ads on the spend page, e-gold is a joke. ... Even if E-Gold were to sell ads on the Spend Page, how many could you put there? A dozen, maybe? How is this beneficial to a currency which grows to supporting thousands

[e-gold-list] Re: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread SnowDog
Well, why are there 0 businesses that take e-gold? Zero businesses that accept e-gold? I can find a couple of hundred. Are you talking about just consumer-merchandise type of businesses? This isn't e-gold's niche because the cost of purchasing something through e-gold involves an exchange

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Geoff
You're not a happy bunny are you jpm. I understand your frustration and sympathise with it. INMHO which I have expressed before, the problem with e-gold becoming more widely used has nothing to do with major firms or conglomerates using it. One of the major problems is getting your account

[e-gold-list] Re: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread Geoff
Succinctly put Snowdog Geoff - Original Message - From: SnowDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: e-gold Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: ads on spend page Well, why are there 0 businesses that take e-gold? Zero businesses

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread SnowDog
majorbrokerage.com does not give a flying fuck about putting a banner ad on golddirectory.com (sorry Bob! :) ) It's Craig. Otherwise, what good is the e-gold webpage, as an advertising venue, if only a few major businesses can afford to put ads there? So what if those businesses simply stay

[e-gold-list] Re: 2 cents link target=_blank was RE: Viking Coder

2001-06-20 Thread Chris Lord-Van Voorst
I'm new to this forum and I was mistakenly under the impression that HTML tags would work. My real point was that when I clicked on Viking Coder's 2 cents link, it was nonfunctional. I think I'm up to speed now. Sorry for cluttering the list! Regards, Chris Lord-Van Voorst --- You are

[e-gold-list] Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-20 Thread SnowDog
This isn't related to e-gold, (other than BananaGold.com), but does anyone see any way out for Amazon.com? They appear to be in a death spiral, from which there seems no recovery. They're heavily in debt. They're continuing to lose money. Their source of new equity is drying up.

[e-gold-list] Re: freaking two cents

2001-06-20 Thread Geoff
How about fixing your 2 cents link? (Advice: include a target=_blank tag as well.) I know I could go to the 2cents site and type it in by hand, but I'm too lazy! (I figure I owe you at least a dime by now, so maybe that'll motivate you. LOL!) *Just for the record _blank, is

[e-gold-list] RE: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread Ian Green
You sound as if you have made up your mind that any answer anyone provides will be *wrong*. I understand that you want to put a banner on the spend page, but banners don't work. They are rarely loaded by the time the human is ready to move to the next page, and people are conditioned to ignore

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (4) i said, Oh, there's no method for reaching egold users (5) they said what a fucking stupid conversation this is Suggestion: e-gold should have an e-gold adverts list with a check-button to autosubscibe you on the account creation pages. --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Vince Callaway
Suggestion: e-gold should have an e-gold adverts list with a check-button to autosubscibe you on the account creation pages. You will see something like that in about 3 weeks from FreedomHound.com. You can register to receive email solicitations. The kicker is that the fees paid to send to

[e-gold-list] Re: 2 cents link target=_blank was RE: Viking Coder

2001-06-20 Thread Viking Coder
I just tested my 2cw link and it works fine in IE5.5 . (Note: You don't even have to accept the cookies for it to work!) The problem is that the 2cw.org link doesn't always redirect to two-cents-worth.com. It doesn't have anything to do with the browser. I think that www.2cw.org/VikingCoder

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread James M. Ray
At 09:16 AM -0700 06/20/2001, Vince Callaway wrote: ... I have finished all the work on the mass payment system, I am just finishing up the interface that lets you subscribe to various marketing lists. Yes, yes, but when do we get CHESS? It's the closest I'll ever come to harnessing sloth, if

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Viking Coder
Yes, yes, but when do we get CHESS? It's the closest I'll ever come to harnessing sloth, if my guess is right! ;^) JMR Working on it, and there will be games other than chess available. Although, it's kinda on the back burner right now. I have several other e-gold related projects that I'm

[e-gold-list] Major Fastgold Sale

2001-06-20 Thread shupperd1
Fastgold is having another quick sale. You can get any amount of egold you want for 4% by bank wire, or cash deposits for the remainder of this week. If you wnt to order more than $10,000 then we can drop the price to 3.5% more than $20,000 3%and more that $25,000 your price will be

[e-gold-list] Re: Termination of services to DigiGold II

2001-06-20 Thread Goldlist Cynic
You missed the point (as usual)... --- Viking Coder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TANSTAAFL... It was in beta release with a total circulation of ~US$73,000. Once it went into full release it was going to become a frac reserve currency with e-metal backing 25% of the total circulation. A frac

[e-gold-list] Re: Viking Coder

2001-06-20 Thread Sidd
: How about fixing your 2 cents link? : : I liked the 2cw.org variety of link better, but I've had a few people : say : that the redirection isn't working. I've switched over to the : two-cents-worth variety of link. : : Sidd, any idea what the problem could be? Yep, That 2cw.org link belongs

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
majorbrokerage.com does not give a flying fuck about putting a banner ad on golddirectory.com (sorry Bob! :) ) It's Craig. Sorry! I'd just been writing Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob in promoting Bobgold .. I mean Bananagold ... Otherwise, what good is the e-gold webpage, as an

[e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
3) they said so, how do we reach these users, where do we buy the email addresses of all users or advertise to users (4) i said, Oh, there's no method for reaching egold users (5) they said what a fucking stupid conversation this is This is an amazing thing. Presumably the same brokerage

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
This isn't related to e-gold, (other than BananaGold.com), but does anyone see any way out for Amazon.com? They appear to be in a death spiral, from which there seems no recovery. They're heavily in debt. They're continuing to lose money. Their source of new equity is drying up.

[e-gold-list] RE: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
You sound as if you have made up your mind that any answer anyone provides will be *wrong*. I understand that you want to put a banner on the spend page, but banners don't work. They are rarely loaded by the time the human is ready to move to the next page, and people are conditioned to ignore

[e-gold-list] oh no

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
Parker Bradley, if you're out there, your email goes in and out! Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't! :) JPee! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
what good is the e-gold webpage, as an advertising venue Unless e-gold started data mining the spending habits of their users and correlating it to the type of business that the spend was made to, the only relevance that the advertising would have is that they accept e-gold. No .. no logic

[e-gold-list] Re: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread jpm
Well, why are there 0 businesses that take e-gold? Zero businesses that accept e-gold? I can find a couple of hundred. Craig mate, I mean serious ones. Rather than cottage industry ones (like my crap ones, like Banana). (Thats the perfect illustration ... Amazon, no, jp's crap

[e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Vince Callaway
Don't most of the market-makers sell advertising on their web pages? Isn't _that_ a way of targeting advertising to e-gold users? I have seen marginal results from banner ads on my own site. I get quite a bit of traffic to the site, but the people visiting are generally focused in getting

[e-gold-list] Re: Termination of services to DigiGold II

2001-06-20 Thread Viking Coder
You missed the point (as usual)... I realized you probably meant e-gold, but didn't feel like to composing another message. I have a bad habit of missing the obvious point and seeing the less obvious, and possibly/usually unintended, points of a statement or problem. It comes from being a

[e-gold-list] Re: ads on spend page

2001-06-20 Thread Julian Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, why are there 0 businesses that take e-gold? Zero businesses that accept e-gold? I can find a couple of hundred. Craig mate, I mean serious ones. Rather than cottage industry ones (like my crap ones, like Banana). (Thats the perfect

[e-gold-list] Re: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Viking Coder
Unless e-gold started data mining the spending habits of their users and correlating it to the type of business that the spend was made to, the only relevance that the advertising would have is that they accept e-gold. No .. no logic here? e-gold would be to offer *only* untargeted

[e-gold-list] RE: egold is a shit currency for scams and hyips

2001-06-20 Thread Samuel Mc Kee
To reach people who have US Dollars: (i) advertise anywhere, on any medium. Whatever and wherever the ad was, it would reach only _some_ users and be unseen by most. It would suffer from the same weakness as an ad on a market-maker's page. Tried it extensively, more than anyone. A good

[e-gold-list] Re: Is there Anyway Out for Amazon.com?

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Brett
Well Jp part of that tend to go to the fact tha banangold doesn't have the inventory requirements etc.. as a footnote Ive used the banana people a few times and they are great however the amazon service (I paid for 2 day air last wednesday) leaves a LOT to be desired - the package didnt