[6867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Leber)
Thu Jan 9 17:43:20 1997
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:40:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
To: Allan Chong <allan@bellsouth.net>
cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <32D56CDD.3B70@bellsouth.net>
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Allan Chong wrote:
> Even despite the inevitable chargebacks, many spammers would decide that
> fighting with the credit card company isn't worth it.
Uh, you have this backwards. If you read most credit card merchant
agreements, online services have no recourse, without a physical signature
from the customer, against chargebacks for online service. This is
because they are treated as phone orders where the presumption is in the
customers favor.
Mike.
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