Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1191813245.843502.255420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 6, 1:46 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I think we need a Bill of Users' Rights online, standardized and
eventually adhered to by any software company or web site that wants
any interaction deeper than just browsing and reading from its user
base. Not only are onerous terms and conditions commonplace, but
there's nothing very standardized save that users may be treated like
dirt at any time and for no good reason and have no recourse. :P This,
by the way, applies even to *pay* sites AFAICT.

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I'm not sure whether to call this idealism or .... No, all the
other words I can think of would suggest something negative about
you, and we can't have that.

Do you have a specific objection to any of the things I suggested?
They're only in the interests of fairness, after all, and no online
site would have any *legitimate* reason to object that I can think of.
("Legitimate" as in consistent with whatever goals it publicly claims
to have in terms of a) whatever services it's trying to provide its
users and b) whatever it claims is its business model for making
money, if any.)

I'm not objecting to any of the specifics of your "bill of rights";
what I find strange is that you call them "rights". I don't have
any objection to your defining a standard of behavior that you
think providers of online services should do their best to meet
and criticizing those who don't meet it; what I find strange is
that you apparently think it's your right to demand that they meet
your standard. (I'm not explaining this very well; if the idea
doesn't come across anyway -- oh well.)

Now that I think about it, I'd think a debit card would work, and
that anyone with a bank account should be able to get one of those.
But there are security risks there too. <shrug>

I don't see many e-shopfronts with an Interac Accepted Here symbol or,
most usually, anything but a few credit card logos (e.g. MasterCard,
AmEx, and Visa) and a field for inputting a "credit card number" on
the checkout form. Square peg, round hole, and you're suggesting the
square peg will somehow work in that hole anyway...odd.

"Interac"? .... Ah, apparently I've been guilty of US-centrism.
It hadn't occurred to me that things might work differently in
whatever part of the world you live in.

More in reply to another follow-up to your post.

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--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
.

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