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- From: msteele@humboldt1.com (Michael E. Steele)
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- Subject: Re: "safe" registering (Was: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!)
- Date: 06 Apr 96 20:37:17 -500
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- On 01-Apr-96 16:32:19, charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu wrote the following:
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- CE"TI> In article <4jp3bf$m4u@ralph.vnet.net> Jkay@ragtime.vnet.net
- CE"TI> (John Kelly) writes:
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- CE"TI>: Yes .. the way I understand it, halfway across the Atlantic
- CE"TI>: ocean, all mail planes land on a secret island base, where
- CE"TI>: every piece of mail is opened, and read ... then they take
- CE"TI>: out all the cash, re-seal the envelopes and load the plane
- CE"TI>: back up.
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- CE"TI> Mail gets stolen - face it. I've been dealing over the
- CE"TI> internet for a few years and have had cash stolen out of
- CE"TI> several letters. Hell, one of them wasn't an internet deal -
- CE"TI> it was from my grandmother! (And I have a "locked" mailbox,
- CE"TI> even!)
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- CE"TI> Make fun if you will, but sending cash through the mail isn't
- CE"TI> wise.
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- I suppose it was insured:) I've sent cash through the mail dozens of times
- and never once had a problem. I'm not saying it's a safe thing to do but
- the odds of it dissapearing is great.
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- Mike Steele
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- SCORE! Monkeys: one. Humans: zero.
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