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Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps

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On 2025-11-29 04:50, c186282 wrote:
> On 11/28/25 07:09, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-11-28 04:25, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:11:43 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
>>>
>>>> Slackware (US) and OpenBSD (Canada) will accept checks. But I do not
>>>> know if they can cash checks in a currency not associated with their
>>>> Country.
>>>
>>> I dimly recall receiving such a foreign-currency cheque many decades 
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> The bank said they could clear it (less some suitable fees, of
>>> course), but it would take a few days. I was happy with that.
>>>
>>> Might have been a bank cheque, not a personal cheque.
>>
>> Way before the euro, 1976, my father and me travelled to the UK. The 
>> amount of money in bills we were allowed to take out of the country 
>> was limited by law. My father took a bank cheque to cash in London or 
>> Birmingham, and it was not easy. I think that we had to find the 
>> office of our Spanish bank in London, the Santander (BSCH now).
>>
>> In retrospect, I wonder why not use a credit card, but we did not have 
>> any. I do not know why.
>>
>> On other trips, we used traveller cheques, those were new but easy to 
>> use.
> 
>    Credit Cards go back a ways ... but weren't as plugged-in
>    as we know them now until much later, late 70s perhaps.
>    I recall commercials for American Express ... the card
>    everyone would take anywhere.
> 
>    Now it's the card almost nobody takes  :-)
> 
>    Travelers Checks *were* pretty good and easy. You
>    can still buy them ... though not so sure they'll
>    be so widely accepted these days. More secure than
>    CCs and esp direct bank xfers via phones.
> 
>    ANYWAY, it today's Vlad-infested environment, I do
>    NOT provide CC numbers, much less bank routing
>    numbers, to anything but a VERY narrow handful of
>    well-known corps - ones I can *sue* if they
>    mishandle the money. If I can't buy it on Amazon
>    then I probably won't buy it. Damage me and I'll
>    damage you back. Fair.

There are people that say that is not a problem in Europe. I have my 
doubts, but no solid proof either way.

I do know places that publish their account number in the web, for 
decades. For instance, my nntp provider.


> 
>    Paranoid ... or REAL ?
> 
>    Hell, gimme a name and physical address
>    for Linux-X ... then I'll send a platinum
>    coin or something  :-)
> 
>    Hmmm ... How about a "FundLinux.net" ... click
>    a box as to which distros/projects you want to
>    fund ? Still gotta be able to SUE them if they
>    leave all the numbers in Vlad's easy reach ...
> 
>    Oh, USA esp, time to change EVERYONEs ID
>    and account numbers. Do it every five years
>    or so - maybe more often as AI-assisted
>    attacks are escalating.
> 
>    Oh, odd note, in Florida gold coins are now
>    considered proper legal currency again. Alas
>    a biz would need an expensive x-ray florescence
>    device to be SURE they weren't being scammed.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-27 01:04 -0500
  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-11-27 10:16 +0000
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-27 22:04 -0500
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      Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-29 02:05 +0000
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  Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> - 2025-11-28 01:11 +0000
    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-28 03:25 +0000
      Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-28 13:09 +0100
        Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-28 22:50 -0500
          Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-29 13:41 +0100
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    Re: Donations To Linux/Distros/Apps c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-28 00:13 -0500

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