[1313] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Commercial services on the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Fri Sep 6 22:35:14 1991
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 91 21:34:43 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: smart@mel.dit.csiro.au
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, smart@mel.dit.csiro.au
In-Reply-To: Bob Smart's message of Tue, 03 Sep 91 20:32:50 +1000 <199109031032.AA16702@shark.mel.dit.csiro.au>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
>If I hear this again I'll scream. Can one of you CIXers set up a
>system that will let us buy things over the Internet. I suggest the
>following:
[suggestion deleted--involves extra hardware]
Better idea: why not just accept credit card #s? The dialups do. It'd
be simpler and cheaper.
ClariNet already sells email subscriptions to various columns this
way.
I suppose there are security issues here--do you *want* to transmit
your credit card # and expiration date over the Internet--but a
service accepting credit cards could encrypt. (Wouldn't have to be by
email.)
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