From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 20:58:24 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anonymous payment scheme
Message-ID: <199501050503.AAA07022@bb.hks.net>
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The Dalai Lama writes:
> I know that in Delaware it is illegal for a merchant to request ID when 
> you pay by credit card.  I'm not sure if this is wide spread or just 
> local. 

As I recall there was something of a national outcry about this practice
several years back. I think California outlawed it at the time, along with
other states, though I don't know if any federal law was passed.

Since I understand MBNA America is the second-largest employer in Delaware,
I'd guess that if Delaware banned it, so did most states.

Retail stores often asked one to write one's phone number on the check when
paying that way. I remember my father habitually writing the police dept.'s
non-emergency number in all such cases :]

> -- [Here's something for those friendly mail scanners...]
> [...] LSD-25 plutonium north korea terrorist encryption die NSA CERT quiche

"quiche" ?  

The *real* Four Horsemen don't eat quiche !

 -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server   "The objective is for us 
  to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and 
  zeroes. Wherever they are, whatever they are, I need them." -FBI Dir. Freeh

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