Re: primary purpose list

Am Monday 03 May 2004 20:42 verlautbarte Lorrie Cranor :
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> sales of products or services
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> charitable donations [do we want to group this with sales for a
> generic transactions category?]
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> payments and transaction facilitation [do we want to group this with
> sales as above?]

No, definitely no.
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> order fulfillment and delivery
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> banking and financial management
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> registration, enrollment, subscription, reservations, account
> management [are we bundling too many thngs together here?]

I think so.. I would distinguish between subscribing and 
managing (existing) accounts.
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> education - including dissemination of educational materials, testing,
>    grading, interactions with teachers or other students, etc.
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> gaming
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> gambling
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> entertainment
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> arts and literature [could this be combined with entertainment?]
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> news and information
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> communications services
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> search
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> surveys
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> authentication

authorization (login e.g.)?
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> government services (e-government)
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> customizing online experience
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> distributing content (serving pages)
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> respond to user 
I would call this feedback

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> advertising, marketing, and promotion
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> state management
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what about travel (which is a subgroup to sales of services)

Rigo