Re: ::scr Paying for It

[Alaric Snell <alaric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 May 2002 12:15, you wrote:

> I'm wondering if there's any real reason, with the numbers of people
> online now, that this can't work for the web. Let people sign up for
> an account with you, and let them "lend" their account to other
> people. Perhaps even let them generate temporary sub-logins on their
> account.

I'd do this by making the URLs of all the articles and so on contain large 
randomish numbers (so they can't be guessed), but to only show the navigation 
menus if the viewer has a valid logon cookie.

Then anyone can see the URL, but only registered people can *find* those URLs 
in the first place.

> So you say "hey, you'd really like this article on salon. I've given
> you a sublogin. My username is "muttley", and you can use "hitherto"
> and the password "excellent". It'll let you in for a couple of days.

That'd be such a pain to do, and does not account for posting to mailing 
lists :-)

ABS

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