Re: ORBS

At 04:01 PM 6/12/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:

Or, I'll even go further. It was an example of "private law", where the "law merchant" publishes a list of people who break the laws they sell and then lets the market punish or not as they choose. However flawed the list, and however obnoxious the merchant was about the testing to create it, isn't that exactly what many of you have been arguing for the right to do?

Bear

Goodness, you just invented the concept of reputation, in the non-govt-maintained sense.