On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 05:28 AM, Marcel Popescu wrote:

I think all this stuff about reputations is being solved pretty neatly by the credit bureaus... up to getting scalars on people / companies.

Mark

This is naive. Credit bureaus handle only a particular class of reputations, certain types of credit-worthiness, and then with well-documented deep flaws: -- regulation by government -- "Fair Credit Reporting Act" forbids them from "remembering" certain classes of defaults and welshings -- lack of competition (the Three use the same precise standards) If you are rejoining the discussions after a long absence, you need to get up to speed. --Tim May "The Constitution is a radical document...it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights." --President William J. Clinton