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

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

J.D. Forinash writes:
 > 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. 

Yup.  It works through netscape.

 > 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. 

That's interesting.  I didn't know that.  I just said "supposedly"
because I habitually discount marketing and I never heard it from a
source that I would trust to be knowledgable.  Thanks for the info.

 > 
 > > 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. :)

Now _that_ is useful information.

--Michael
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