1995-11-15 - Re: credit card conventional wisdom

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: hallam@w3.org
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-15 16:24:16 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:24:16 +0800

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:24:16 +0800
To: hallam@w3.org
Subject: Re: credit card conventional wisdom
Message-ID: <9511150243.AA14648@sulphur.osf.org>
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>There is in fact a distinction between "card present" and "card not present"
>transactions. AMEX cards for example have an extra group of four digits which 
>are not part of the embossed card number. They are used as additional 
>verification to prove that a card is present.

So the run-it-through-the-mechanical-device is treated as card not present?
	/r$

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• 1995-11-15 (Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:24:16 +0800) - Re: credit card conventional wisdom - Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
  • 1995-11-15 (Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:55:09 +0800) - Re: credit card conventional wisdom - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
    • 1995-11-15 (Wed, 15 Nov 95 09:00:13 PST) - Re: credit card conventional wisdom - hallam@w3.org
      • 1995-11-16 (Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:05:50 +0800) - Re: credit card conventional wisdom - Greg_Rose@sibelius.sydney.sterling.com (Greg ROSE)
        • 1995-11-16 (Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:44:52 +0800) - Amex cards extra four digits - Greg_Rose@sibelius.sydney.sterling.com (Greg ROSE)
  • 1995-11-15 (Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:24:34 +0800) - Re: credit card conventional wisdom - hallam@w3.org