On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Allan Chong wrote:
Even despite the inevitable chargebacks, many spammers would decide that fighting with the credit card company isn't worth it.
Uh, you have this backwards. If you read most credit card merchant agreements, online services have no recourse, without a physical signature from the customer, against chargebacks for online service. This is because they are treated as phone orders where the presumption is in the customers favor. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+