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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:04:24 -0700 From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> Subject: Re: Digital Postage (fwd)
At 2:04 PM -0700 9/28/97, Jim Choate wrote:
I can assure you that any business will not use multiple protocols unless their interface is the same for all of them. There simply isn't enough business to have very many systems.
While this is certainly true for remailers at the present, it is not true for businesses in general. Most of the stores I deal with locally will accept cash, checks or credit cards. The interface (and accounting) for these is quite different. (E.g there is no online check for cash, like there is for credit cards, and sometimes checks.)
These are all the same payment mechanisms. I run a business and the actual accounting for cash, credit cards, etc. doesn't make my books a lot of difference except in what column I put the numbers. My bank certainly doesn't care where that money came from once deposited in my account from somebody elses account. I believe you are caught up in details of the system and not in differences between systems. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|