At 02:30 AM 7/7/96 +0200, you wrote:

Which is where the small payments to ratings producers from ratings consumers comes in. Again this is just the quantification of a phenomena that we all take for granted. (Namely, that people who produce quality ratings are producing a value and trading/contributing it to others.)

It sure sounds like I'll have to pay, so someone decides for me, wether some piece of info is important to me. Now, if that isn't the first step to censorship! That kind of reminds me of an insurance company where I can call a toll-intensive number to talk to a salesman who tries to sell my something I don't really need. ----------< fate favors the prepared mind >---------- Remo Pini Fon 1: +41 1 350 28 82 mailto:rp@rpini.com Fon 2: +41 1 465 31 90 http://www.rpini.com/remopini/ Fax: +41 1 350 28 84 --------< words are what reality is made of >--------