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Mike wrote:

> Hi, I need a program that will do the following:
> 
> 1. Let user enter 7 fields of information in a record.
> 2. Let user add, delete or change records
> 3. Save the information in an output file that looks like this:
> "field 1"  "field 2" ... "field 7"
> "field 1"  "field 2" ... "field 7"
> 
> As you can see, each record goes on its own line.
> The output file should be called merchant.dat
> 
> This is for entering credit card information to be submitted to me via
> email, where I process the transactions.
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> Email your reply.
> Thanks
> Mike Martin
> Point of Sale Systems
> Accept Credit Cards at Your Business!
> http://webmall.net/pos

Let me get this straight:  You have a business called "Point of Sale
Systems," which provides credit card acceptance hardware, and now you
want to do it in software too.  You don't currently have any software
which accomplishes this, meaning that your business isn't exactly
viable in that market at the current point in time.  You want
someone on the net to write software which you hope will make your
business very profitable, and you're willing to pay almost nothing
to have it done ($100 -- Oh well, if you pay peanuts...)

But let's look a little deeper:  On your web page, I find this:

 # If you would like to participate in a bulk
 # e-mailing promotion of your web site, we can
 # get your message out to 500,000 email
 # addresses for only $200, by using one of our
 # client's bulk e-mail servers. If you can't find a
 # few customers for your product or service out of
 # 500,000 prospects, find a new product! 

"You're one o'em SPAM MERCHANTS, arnchee!"

You really need to ask yourself why anyone on the net would actually
*want* your business to be viable, considering that you're one of
those halfwit bastards who fills our mailboxes and newsgroups with
crap.  

So please:  Take your software description and your web page, 
print 'em out, then fold 'em 'til they're all corners and bash
'em up your ass.

    - mark

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