On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:08:47AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Dorn Hetzel wrote: > >There is a really huge difference in the ease with which payment from a > >credit card can be reversed if fraudulent, and the amount of effort > >necessary to reverse a wire transfer. I won't go so far as to say that > >reversing a wire transfer is impossible, but I would claim it's many orders > >of magnitude harder than the credit card reversal. > > To paraphrase one of my colleagues from the user interaction world: > > "The key to offering a compelling service is minimising > transaction hassles." > > I encourage all my competitors to implement inconvenient hard to use > payment methods....
I do too. If all of your competitors uniformly make it just enough harder for Bad Actors to rent servers from which to Act Bad, then we'll *know* where it's coming from, and what to do about it -- and why (you wanted to make more money). See also "Tragedy Of The Commons". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer +-Internetworking------+---------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA +-http://bestpractices.wikia.com-+ +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
