[1906] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Steele)
Sun Jul 2 16:25:57 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0607021523370.16993@ptolomaea.mit.edu>
From: Matthew Steele <mdsteele@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:25:03 -0700
To: Steven M Kelch <kelch@mit.edu>
Cc: ua-scatr@mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On Jul 2, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Steven M Kelch wrote:
> It's come through the grapevine that there will be an addition to
> the MIT
> ID card. In addition to Tech Cash, there will be a new account created
> that will be "food only". Where Tech Cash can be used at any
> location that
> currently accepts it (and, so I hear, possibly a few more being
> added),
> this new "food only" account will be accepted at places that sell
> only food items. This means that the Coop, La Verdes, and
> student groups that accept Tech Cash for ticket sales are excluded.
Is the set of places that will accept the food-only account a subset
of the places that will accept tech-cash, or will the new system
allow the ID to be used at additional places?
If it is a proper subset, then is there _any_ benefit to the
alternate account other than giving parents more control over
spending? If there is no other benefit to the new system, then no, I
would have no reason to use it, and I don't see why anyone else would
except for parents who can't trust their kid not to buy tabloids.
-fM@
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