Re: AmigActive issue 3

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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00

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Noel Foster said, 

>> > Neil Bothwick <postmaster@wirenet.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> >> Then Smiths have screwed up, it's definitely been out for more than two
>> >> weeks.
>> 
> I saw them today.  They're blaming their distributors.  I thought they
> were WH Smith as well.

They are, although it's a separate company. W H Smith Distribution
handle around a third of all UK magazine distribution.

>> There is now secure online ordering 

> I'm sorry, but whenever I see this I think "If you believe that you'll
> believe anything".  Cynic, moi?

What's so hard to believe about it?  Do you really think SSL encrypted
HTTP transmissions are realistically crackable? It's a far more secure
way of using a credit card than giving the number to some anonymous oik
on the other end of the phone, not knowing where he'l write it or what
he'll do with the paper after he's finished with it.

Neil
-- 
Neil Bothwick - New Media Editor, Amiga Active Magazine
  http://www.wire.net.uk    http://www.amigactive.com
-- 
The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.

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