At 04:55 PM 1/8/00 +0000, you wrote:

>
> From: root <evpopkov@...>
> I'm talking about `mid-range' donations, one to five thousand dollars. For
> these amounts wire transfer fees are relatively small. On the other hand, the
> amount is considerably big to think twice before trusting it to online
> transaction. Also, exposing your credit card to the whole 'Net with such a
> laughable protection as 128-bit SSL is not wise IMHO.
> Well, just a paranoid.

1-5K? That's quite a "donation". At that level of money and above, most
people will want to see some serious organization and responsibility in case
things don't work the way they should. If IBDI presents a professional
appearance and a united front, things should go much easier with the collection
of funds.

Actually, encrypted transactions over the web are often far from it. The big
boys that are running their own web servers with T3's and such don't have a
problem. However, most smaller web sites that are hosted by someone else may
have SSL encryption but then the HTML form's contents are simply emailed right
back to them in unencrypted form. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of
encryption. If IBDI decides to take credit cards over the web, there needs to
be a secure way to transfer the information from the web server back to where
it is charged.

Jim Gunkel
Nevrona Designs