At 4:34 PM -0400 on 10/18/00, Steve Furlong wrote:
I'll kick you right square in the nuts if Robert Hettinga doesn't beat me to it.
Moi? Never. I can't reach that far... By the way, your fervent hope and belief has nothing to do with, or, for that matter, does anonymity. Risk-adjusted transaction cost, on the other hand... :-). Cheers, RAH, Who still believes, heretically in several fora, that internet bearer transactions are cheaper because they're strong enough to be anonymous, but that's beside the point... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'