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On 31 May, in article <4omd0a$57@wuzz.demon.co.uk>
     S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk "Stewart Brodie" wrote:

SB> To keep on the topic of the thread, I have always felt it isn't worth
SB> the bother of managing a shareware distribution scheme - especially for
SB> the trouble it must cause people outside the UK.  I know I have users in
SB> South Africa, Australia, New Zealand & Japan amongst others, for
SB> instance.  If I asked them to send me money, say 5 quid, it would
SB> penalise some of them almost double that amount in banking charges.

You ever saw a bank that looked tatty?  All that marble they
have to pay for; you should feel sympathy, huh?

My solution, when I asked for money, was to accept anything.
You ask for a fiver, 10 US$, or equiv in local currency, sent
in notes, wrapped in a letter (I'll trust my Brit postie, but
theirs may be less honest).  You then throw it in a shoebox
and hope someday you have a little drinking money when you
get to that part of the world.  Or you find you have a friend
who's emigrating, and he swaps your cash for a 20Mb disk drive
(this was rather a long time back).

Or you could arrange to accept Visa/Mastercharge.  That needs
a bank.  See para 1 above.  :-( :-( :-(

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John Washington