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Article #1687Re: OCR font, check printing
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 08:44
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 08:44
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In article <Mar.21.10.04.22.1990.970@airplane.rutgers.edu> kaldis@airplane.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) writes:
> Theoretically, you can
>write a check on a napkin, and the bank is legally obligated to honor
>it.
A friend of mine once deposited a check written on a blackboard. I think
I've also heard stories about people printing checks on their bodies.
> (Once I had to
>deposit a check that was a photocopy, and the bank whined about it,
>but they ultimately honored it -- and it was good.)
I presume the signature was original, not copied. Otherwise, what would
prevent me from photocopying a check multiple times in order to steal money
from the payer?
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,misc.legal Subject: Re: OCR font, check printing Message-ID: <34896@news.Think.COM> Date: 22 Mar 90 08:44:24 GMT References: <1990Mar19.000741.13602@cs.utk.edu> <Mar.21.10.04.22.1990.970@airplane.rutgers.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: barmar@nugodot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 20