Dear Yog & Craig, A quick note to reply to each of your inquiries.
With respect to Yahoo Pay Direct, I would check the Yahoo for other countries, such as yahoo.fr to see if they offer PayDirect from there. If so, then the requirement for a socialist's insecurity number may be different. I was under the impression that you knew of a customer who wanted to use their credit card to fund an e-gold account. If you have a bank account, such as a checking account, Yahoo Pay Direct works with that system, too, using direct deposit and direct withdrawal. It is my understanding, and I have validated this data, that a company checking account works, and that the use of a company taxpayer ID number (issued to those with employees in the USA) works in place of a social security number. Yahoo Pay Direct is a suboptimal system, and makes a great deal of use of state agencies to corroborate information (e.g., uses the US Postal Service to confirm address information; uses SSN to confirm identity). It is not an anonymous user's friendly system. However, given the terrible inadequacies of credit card money, those of us who wish to see the total amount of metal-backed currencies in circulation online exceed $25 million any time soon have to consider alternatives like Yahoo Pay Direct to establish some channel, however fault-ridden, to bring in checking account and credit card money in a way that doesn't risk our ability to continue doing business. In this matter, Yahoo stands head and shoulders above PayPal. Craig received a private message with a few other links. I'm responding here, publicly, with the thought that others may wish to have better than bad info on Somalia. I like http://www.awdal.com/ because, after all, I helped design it (Tristan Petersen built its current incarnation). The "Whither Somaliland" essay is worth the price of admission, which is, after all, free. Regards, Jim http://www.awdal.com/ http://www.two-cents-worth.com/?101468&EG -> if you liked what you just read, don't applaud, just spend me some decigrams of gold. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html lets you observe the e-gold system's activity now!
