making the agora vanish

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:

> But you don't have to employ any reputation service, in fact 
> none at all, if you like.  That's the difference.  The librarians
> of reputation do not force you to consume their product.

Ok, let's assume for a moment that we do the exchange anonymously.

Isn't the anonymizing agent itself a 'reputation service' in that it's
reputation capital is 'anonymity'?

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