Talk:DoshTracker

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[edit] Defacing notes

[trimmed my earlier rambling] ... do we have (or can we find) a primary reference for the practice of "defacing" a bank note by writing on it being illegal (or at least more illegal than in the USA), rather than what currently seems to be hearsay? -- Stoive 02:01, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Answering my own question...

it is an offence under the Currency and Banknotes Act 1928 (section 12) if: "any person prints, or stamps or by any like means impresses, on any bank note any words, letters or figures" (from help page of a similar website [1])

seems interesting that this doesn't actually mention writing on the banknotes...

--Stoive 15:20, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

I changed the wording anyway so it doesn't seem as if people who do quick sums on the back of a fiver would be thrown in jail while they would not in the US. I can see why the site has its stance, while the odd scribble doesn't matter, a website encouraging lots of people to write on notes might get in trouble with the bank of England. --86.130.156.186 22:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current status of the site

Has something happened to the website? I accessed it about a week ago no problem. But I tried a couple of days ago and then again today and I can't get in. The page times out before anything loads. Is it a major problem? Has the site closed down? iF so, it should be mentioned in the article. Evil Eye 15:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I've been trying to access the site for a couple weeks, but it doesn't seem to work. The cached site on Google [2] is from Monday, 01 January 2007 06:50 pm, so it looks like then Google was still able to access the site, although the last entered note shows as 2006-12-24 05:58:36. So it seems that there is a major problem. Luzian 11:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)