filtering based on reputation. Since negative reputation can be avoided simply by creating another pseudonym, the only reputation that will make a difference is positive reputation: credibility.
What's to stop you (once you have some "reputation") from creating 250 other pseudonyms or "identitites", giving them all a "reputation", and then create another identity, and have these 250 all give this one as much as possible, in effect creating an identity with a lot of "credibility" out of thin air? -- Yanek Martinson mthvax.cs.miami.edu!safe0!yanek uunet!medexam!yanek this address preferred -->> yanek@novavax.nova.edu <<-- this address preferred Phone (305) 765-6300 daytime FAX: (305) 765-6708 1321 N 65 Way/Hollywood (305) 963-1931 evenings (305) 981-9812 Florida, 33024-5819