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Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed
SabberFlapper writes "According to this Announcement to the developer list of Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has
been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now,
rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something
about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be
resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like it will
happen. [..]
I do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to
this travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal
is acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their
system is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to steal from -- AbiWord?
Maybe somebody should write a PayPal HOWTO so people can avoiding making mistakes like that.
Sure, no problem!
PAYPAL HOWTO
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(1) Don't.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
found it !
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
l11128 John Galt Boulevard
Forgive me for asking.. but that name sounds familiar. Who is John Galt?
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only