On 12/6/13 7:00 AM, Martin wrote > > 2013/12/5 Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> > > Generally they?re not offices but mailboxes in post offices that are the > problem. They get tagged, but if you go there, all that?s there is a private > post office. > > > > because you checked this personally? How would you know that these are > mailboxes and not offices? > > of course they haven't all been checked personally, but it's not uncommon for these types of mail order and/or online only businesses to have a mailbox at a private business that specializes in mailboxes and mailing services. i've been a participant in the anti-spam community for, well, since there's been spam, and this is pretty common with spammers, so it's a very familiar pattern to me (which is not to say that bitcoin merchants operating from mailboxes are equivalent, just that it's a very economical model for someone working from home in their pajamas).
so no, it hasn't been checked, but it's very likely. there's a distinction to be drawn here, i think, between individual merchants taking bitcoin and the folks entering data from lists. the former may need a little education, the latter may need a lot of education and based on Serge's comments, they may not be interested in being educated. we should not be permitting the latter to blow off the rules and requirements of our community if that is what they are doing. richard
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