[153648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jun 9 16:43:35 2012
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20435.39589.202092.547749@world.std.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com>
> A friend would print in block letters in the sig area of his credit
> cards "ASK FOR PHOTO ID". He said that almost always cashiers et al
> would give a cursory glance like they were checking his signature and
> say thank you and hand him back his card.
This seems like an altogether excellent time to haul out *this* old
chestnut:
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
FWIW, My cards have always said SEE ID, and I get about a 40% or so hit
rate on that. It's been odd recently, cause I sometimes forget, and the
privacy reflex kicks in and makes me want to say "Why??" :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
