From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Credit card madness.
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:28:37 +0000

In message , Chris Blunt 
 writes
>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:02:23 +0000, john boyle
> wrote:
>
>>How can every merchant terminal in the world be on line with every card
>>issuer in the world 24/7?
>
>Except during temporary system outages, why couldn't they be?

The network isnt that sophisticated.
-- 
John Boyle