Randall makes an excellent point below, one I hadn't considered. I use AOL
but have nothing personally that I know of that makes everything secure.
Therefore, I suggest if you do send me your credit card information, you do
it at your own risk.
Another alternative is to call me and give me the information. Through March
31 you can reach me at 262-392-2559. April 1 thru 15 I'll be traveling but
will have my portable phone with me, 414-940-6674.
Probably the best way is still with a check.
Kent Howard
In a message dated 3/28/2003 5:41:52 PM Central Standard Time,
ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM writes:
> Hi Kent :
>
> Just a word of caution, email is by no means secure, and human-readable
> copies of any email may wind up being stored on any number of machines not
> under your control.
>
> I used to work as head of Information Technology for a small company; my
> job
> often involved displaying other's emails while doing maintenance on our
> mail
> system. I of course would never steal a CC number; but I might not have
> always been careful to not have email on the screen when someone else
> walked
> into my office. And, many of the emails that passed through our system are
> still stored on some backup tape somewhere ...
>
> I use my CC on the Internet fairly often, assuming that anyone who puts up
> a
> secure site will also treat the number with due caution. But I won't send
> it by email.
>
> Just my $.002
> Randall
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