There are a few ways to prove that you are yourself using official ids in Spain. Most people use DNI for convenience, but you can use your driving licence or passport.<br>But you're right, you have to pay a fee (nowadays is something around 10€, but I'm not really sure) every time your DNI is renewed (every 10 years or so). They don't require you to show your DNI to prove that you've paid the fee, but to prove that you are yourself.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/30 Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"> Actually you don't even need to use the DNI for online<br>
banking if you don't want to, you can use regular username+password<br>
authentication.<br>
<br>
</div>That's good, but (I was told) the municipal swimming pools in<br>
Barcelona require users to show their DNI to prove they have paid the<br>
annual subscription fee. If I recall right, they don't allow any<br>
other method. Using the DNI was easy and they saw no reason to allow<br>
anything else.<br>
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