From: kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) Subject: Re: Linux on CD-ROM For Only U$ 19.95 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 05:14:22 GMT
In article <CC2s7C.8sA@oea.hobby.nl> dan@oea.hobby.nl writes:
>Jay Jana (jay@jana.com) wrote:
>
>[stuff about Linux CD-ROM deleted]
>
> Why don't you answer your bloody e-mail! I sent you my credit
>card number and a few mail messages asking for confirmation that you
>recieved it to no avail.
Sending your credit card numbers through the mail is a bad idea, unless
you encrypt it with Jay's public DES key (so he can decrypt it with his
private key. But I don't know if he has a key, so it's probably a moot
point).
The reason is that a mail route often involves some uucp store-and-forward
portion. While your message is stored, it is potentially accessible by
others. Not something you'd want to entrust your credit card number with.
>You say you have about 1000 customers, I suspect
>you can have many more if you can get some business sense and start
>resonding to your customers (current & potential).
>
> My advice is DON'T SEND YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER BY E-MAIL to
>these people until they start answering their e-mail reliably.
It's probably a bad idea to send your credit card number anyway, unless
you encrypt it with Jana's public key first (again, they probably don't
have one, so the short answer is: don't bother. Use the phone instead).
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