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Re: Spam

From Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups chi.internet
Subject Re: Spam
Date 2016-02-16 16:30 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <n9vird$7u8$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <slrnnbup7v.gar.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <n9pvfp$27b$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <n9q1ql$58h$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <n9t0lh$a4f$1@reader1.panix.com> <n9v6b7$mg4$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com>

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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote:
> 
>> You could register for free, but had to pay the $100 if you wanted to keep 
>> the domain. Basically, you got the domain for free, they'd wait to collect 
>> money and if months later you never payed, they shut it off.
> 
> Make sense but either I blotted it out of my mind or there was something else
> going on.
> 
> In the directory where I found the templates are probably 300+ filled out
> between 1995 and 1998. If we were cutting that many checks to Internic or
> Netsol, I just don't remember. It was also before online credit card era for
> those.

My emails from 1997 indicate you could make credit card payments through 
"First Virtual" whatever the hell that was, or call some toll free number 
and give a card over the phone. Also, if you had a "5 digit" account
number you could put in on your tab.

All the internet card processing I had to deal with around that time were 
really hokey setups. There was some totaly broken "api" that involved 
donaloading like 500MB of perl scripts to connect to one bank on the 
internet to accept cards. I can't recall the company name, but it was a 
big deal at the time, and they really fucking sucked. First Virtual maybe?

We opted for a https form that did basic card number validation and then 
wrote shit to a file. Then we'd FTP or MSLANMANthe data to a DOS machine 
running some colorful program that could batch process card data from a 
file over a modem. Yeah, it had to be a specific type of 2400 baud modem 
too. I do recall my Microcom AX/2400c worked fine with that software. You 
had to have some weird AT commands just to be assholes to try to force 
customers to buy ripoff modems. Bogus transactions we put back onto the 
unix box and accounts were invalidated.

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