-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199801150310.VAA03430@einstein.ssz.com>, on 01/14/98 at 09:10 PM, Jim Choate said:

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:28:50 -0800 From: Tim May Subject: Re: Public choice theory and the politics of antitrust

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I think, Declan, that deleting the author's name is a Big Problem.

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You have essentially made this author "Anonymous."

Does knowing the name of who wrote a piece really have any bearing on the consistency of it? Is so then there would be a clear indication that there is a fundamental flaw with anonymous remailers and their place in society.

Of course there is bearing on who the author is. This is the foundation behind reputation capital. The existance of reputation capital does not present any flaws on anonymous remailers, their documents are just devoid of any such capital (positive or negative). Do we really need a rehash of this? - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Windows? WINDOWS?!? Hahahahahehehehehohohoho... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNL2APY9Co1n+aLhhAQETXQQAtSqorI96ZhHcsIRhdB+R2Mw1U4euTBDr xVnVrb+VRSV+HdkWY2DtQzUV0AAEi2JcxqpqxHbglUH5crs5x3j2/9tGB0NzW45c m9MhI8BV1RmRYQWzKx4baEvk6+0oj64ViAA44nzs+8RKE8Tkn50n0NusGyQikX+B SR3OWJT2Pvc= =0jqV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----