[Moderately OT]Re: [ale] no love from PCMCIA

[J.D. Forinash]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:21:52AM -0400, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> Hah.  I haven't written more than 5 checks in the last year.  I do all
> my bill paying in Netscape.  I heartily recommend SFNB as a bank.
> They are an internet bank (supposedly the first one, too).  They offer
> free interest checking with some pretty reasonable number of checks.

And, the most important part: It's Linux friendly. None of this 
we-require-Quicken stuff. 

I can't go into detail on their security, but I used to work for what
used to be their parent company and I was sufficiently impressed that
I signed up.  

The "Supposedly the first one" is something of a technicality. They were
predated by one bank that got hacked and quietly disappeared from the
net inside of a week. 

> They have only 1 branch, and it's in Atlanta (Buckhead).  Fortunately,
> they will also pay your ATM fee at other banks--up to 2 withdrawals a
> month.

Note that "Presto" machines at Publix don't have a fee. :)

-JDF
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