Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Unsold Inventory

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Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:54:07 -0500

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>My own opinion is that subscription fee-based sites will
>always be a tiny minority of web sites, at least until there
>is some way to do "micro-transactions" so that sites can
>charge very small fees (e.g. 25 cents per month, or one
>cent per pageview).

Actually, such a system does indeed exist. I learned about it while
working in the communications division at Digital Equipment Corp.

However, when I visited DEC's web site, I couldn't find any information
about it. The software program was designed to be ported onto Digital
UNIX web servers and could collect subscription-based web sites in
increments as small as half a cent per transaction.

The program is called Millicent. As I said, I couldn't find the info on
DEC's web site, so it's possible it's a third-party program. Does anyone
else have any info on it? I *think* that I learned about it while
preparing for the fall 1996 ComDex, but it may have been that year's
Decus.

Sorry I don't have more information, but hopefully this will spark
someone else's memory.

Regards,

Jason Ellis
No corporate affiliation.

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