USING YOUR CREDIT CARD ON THE INTERNET

For our online users, TIME World Wide on Pathfinder on the World Wide Web and the Time News Center on CompuServe provide not only news and analysis but also an ongoing forum in which they can debate the issues of the day. Two weeks ago, we asked for users' views on the following question:

Is it safe to conduct business, including making credit-card purchases, on the Internet?

Here are some of the responses we got:

Using a credit card is not safe no matter where you use it. The Internet is about as safe as any other place of business. The...