Bringing Micropayments To the phpnuke Community

aelfakih writes "Centipaid.com made available a phpnuke add-on making it possible for anyone with a phpnuke site to collect micro fees for accessing specific sections of the site. The module is released under GPL and it is still beta, but seems to be stable. There is a demo of the micropayment system for phpnuke on http://phpnuke.centipaid.com. There is also a GPL Apache module that does the same thing, but it is intended for system admin with access to the apache server config files, or .htaccess. Links to the phpnuke info is on http://www.centipaid.com/download.html as well as the phpnuke.org site. Links to the apache::centipaid module is on http://www.centipaid.com/download.html and on freshmeat.net "

Comments

Re:Solution to eliminating spam?

[aelfakih]

The internet stamps came out as a child project from an email system that I was developing to eliminate spam in the long run.

The model assumes that each domain name has a public mail policy. the mail policy will set the postage for the domain based on the mail category. If anyone wants to mail that domain then they need to pay, or the message is denied.

I submited a proposal to ietf, but since it is in draft mode, it can not be used for reference, and if people are interested in this please let me know. I can give you access to the source code of the demo implementation that make this possible based on the designed model.

Thanks, Adonis

Re:Who is Adonis El Fakih?

[aelfakih]

Thanks Eustace :)

Fortuanatly I have been in many places, and thanks to google I can be easily tracked.

A little about me??
I founded ayna.com the first arabic internet guide (still kicking), developed the algorithms for the search, and just did everythig in it.

I also worked in genral dynamics, and oracle corporation as senior principal consultant in the advnaced technology solutions division.

What got me down this road was the unrelenting spam that I had to deal with on ayna.com. I get over 250,000 messages a day, 90% of it is spam. We spend most of time and money just fending off spam attacks in all of theur variations. So I sat down early 2002 and designed a complete mail system from the ground up that is not prone to spam attacks, and that lead to the internet stamps, which prompted me to adapt for online payments when I found out that it will be impossible for me to keep ayna.com alive forever if it does not generate revenues, and at the same time no one will be willing to pay 10 or 30/month to simply access an internet directory, but they are willing to pay .005 for few days, and that is how eveything started :))) And now with over 1 million using ayna, I can actually reposition that portal to stand on its feet generating its own revenue.

And here we are chatting about who am I? :)

Again thanks to all for th wonderfull opportunity yo discuss these issues...

Adonis

Re:Dead on Arrival

[aelfakih]

Hi anonymous,

I beg to differ. As a website owner, I do not generate enough funds to keep my sites kicking. We all pay to get online, but once we are online we want everything free, which is a good thing, but at the end good websites without major funding will have to close if they do not generate some kind of revenue.

I mean look at slashdot. they are managed by a big company and still charge you for accessing their site. the trick is to charge users "reasonable" fees that are not too high that makes no sense paying them.

For example, how much would you pay to access slashdot??? If you are able to put a price, then we do not have a DOA... instead you see my point, everything has a price, but it may not be 30 dollars a month, maybe it is 50 cents per week? or 1 cent a day... everything has a price.

If it continues to be DOA i will need to bring my first aid kit next time around :)

Best regards, adonis