[quote]mail him a check [/quote]
Nope no can do. Banks generally refuse to cash cheques written in another country.

having gone into international money transfers recently in respect to paying tint for getting me some tai chi fans from hong kong. Essentially banks are happily ensconced in the 19th century and refuse to admit that transferring money electronically is easy and quick.
Even - and cynical as I am - I found this hard to believe, even if it's just a different branch of the same bank.
Yep the hong kong and shanghai banking corporation has branches all over the uk, but refuse to let you pay money into another hsbc account that is not uk based. Talk about old fashioned gits.

What you can do. Is buy some travellers cheques (usually commission free) sign both parts and put the name of the person you want to pay in the middle. Apparently this is now as good as money anywhere in the world, but only the person named can cash it - presumably they are asked for proof of identity. Dunno really but it's what my bank staff told me to do - we'll see if it works :-)

EDIT: No it didn't work :-(

From my web experience, a simple text ad would cover 100% of the site's costs with some extra change for the work involved.

Paypal is not that bad it works for me, but I totally agree that this site without adds is something to treasure, we sling, we are different, lets keep it that way.

I for one prefer no ad's, ad breaks on the telly are just long enough to make a cup of tea or coffee or as prefer to pour a beer

Thats just plain awesome