On Sun, Dec 02, at 12:29PM, Jim Choate wrote: | Actually not, most folks use reputations to do away with security checks | they would use othewise. It's a sellers cost cutting measure. If you have | a 'good' reputation my cost of diong secure and reliable business will | probably(!!!) be lower. I know trying to educate you to the ways of the world is a futile effort, but I can't resist sometimes. How does my great wonderful reputation reduce the cost of doing business with me? It may well give me more business, but certainly not chaper business. I don't care how reliable you are, if you start skimping on security your reliability goes down in my book. --Gabe -- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --On the eve of Britain's entry into World War II: "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.