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Re: Electronic Signatures Yield Unpleasant Surprises
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Glatting)
Sat Jul 1 19:29:03 2000
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 05:42:26 -0700
From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>
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To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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Did anyone talk to the IRS? If I do not get a hard copy receipt, how
do I prove purchase in case of audit? Moreover, if the transaction is
electronic and the vendor's system crashed and the vendor lost his
data, which I am confident he is not liable for, or the vendor goes
out of business and the data vanishes into the ether, how do I prove
purchase? Is the best I can hope for a belly laugh from an IRS agent
as he slams the prison door behind me?
