From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 9:14:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 498B037B40C for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 654 invoked by uid 100); 12 Oct 2001 16:13:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15303.5830.595302.430495@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:13:58 -0500 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" , chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: Makoto MATSUSHITA , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD 4.4 CDROM subscriptions - who's doing what? In-Reply-To: <200110121424.f9CEOfb71925@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <200110120341.f9C3f0b68334@whizzo.transsys.com> <20011012131017L.matusita@matatabi.or.jp> <200110121424.f9CEOfb71925@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Replies have been pointed to -chat. Louis A. Mamakos types: > That's fine, except that I gave my credit card number to Walnut Creek > who was acquired by BSDI, then acquired by Wind River. I have a business > relationship with them, and I don't look kindly on them disclosing > my credit card information to third parties. If they wish to use > someone else to act as the fulfillment agent to ship the order, it's > up to them. But I'm still Wind River's customer and expect them to > keep this sensitive information confidential and not disclose it to third > parties. I have higher expectations than that. I expect that they won't give my CC number to anyone who doesn't have something to do with collecting the money, no matter *who* they work for. I really don't care if they contract all their accounting out to some other company, that's their decision. I've already trusted their judgement about who in their company they let see the credit card number; I see no reason not to trust their judgement about the company they choose to handle the transaction. My only problem with this one is that they are terminating the business relationship. That makes me worry that they might not have take appropriate care in their choice. > Oh well, fortunatly my credit card expired. But vendors doing business > over the internet and using credit cards for payment should be very > sensitive to this issue. They aren't. I've had internet orders placed at company 1, shipped from company 2, and the cc account lists company 3. The internet makes doing business this way easier for businesses as well as consumers. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message