[153702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jun 10 19:12:39 2012
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120610220605.GA22422@panix.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett Frankenberger" <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
> But the same reasoning still applies. The card issuers don't want you
> have to show ID, becuase you might decide it's too much trouble, and
> just use some other method to pay.
Except for Amex, who have always *stringently* required this; I've even
seen customer-facing advertising pointing it out.
They have to do something to get merchants to take their card with the
higher discount rate.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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