Re: Spam

From	smr <me@shawnritchie.com>
Newsgroups	chi.internet
Subject	Re: Spam
Date	2016-02-16 17:54 -0600
Organization	ftupet.com
Message-ID	<na0csm$le6$1@ftupet.ftupet.com> (permalink)
References	(7 earlier) <n9pvfp$27b$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <n9q1ql$58h$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <n9t0lh$a4f$1@reader1.panix.com> <n9v6b7$mg4$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <n9vird$7u8$1@reader1.panix.com>

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On 2/16/2016 10:30 AM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> 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?

I'm having flashbacks to helping customers get Miva Merchant working on 
their shitty websites back then. What a cluster fuck that software was.

-- 
smr

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