Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:48:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | DUPRE Christophe <> | Subject | Re: Money (was Re: test version of 2.1.0 available (fwd)) |
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Marc Lewis wrote: > > I _really_ don't want money. You wouldn't believe how frustrating it is with > personal cheques from the US - in the best case it costs on the order of > $10-20 USD just to get them cached (*), and that's after arguing about it > with the bank tellers for 10 minutes. > > (*) Think about it for a while. How safe would you rate any personal cheque > on a scale of 1-10? Personally, I'd call it at about a -50. You can print out > fake cheques on your average dot matrix printer, for Gods sake! Small > children in kindergarten can make one up with a pink crayon. No wonder no > self-respecting bank outside the US wants to have anything to do with them.
How about certified checks, then ? Or money order ??
Christophe Dupre Universite de Montreal Montreal, Qc, Canada "Nous ne sommes pas libres de ne pas etre libres, nous sommes obliges de l'etre" - Fernando Savater
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