ahem, yes I am aware any simple system is easily circumvented & defeated, but that doesnt imply that it will be.
Ive noticed many objections to any new proposal often take the form, "but that would be different than what we have now!!!" wow, amazing, no kidding!!! I can come up with all kinds of objections to my own proposal, basically identical to what everyone else wrote. ok, fine, status quo stays the same :p lets just gripe,bitch,moan to the list for another few years. wheeeeeeeeeee I thought things might be different after a half decade of cyberspace lightning, but so nice that some things just dont change. yes, its cypherpunk stalemate as usual. I fully agree with TCM. who writes about it every few weeks for the last ten years. hahahaha cypherpunk == grandiose ideas, no execution. 99% inspiration, 1% perspiration hahahaha q. whats the difference between a group of cpunks & a group of arbitrary people chosen at random??? a. the arbitrary people OCCASIONALLY AGREE WITH EACH OTHER!! they also OCCASIONALLY WORK TOGETHER!!! hahahahha just for my own amusement I may write a quick perl script to do some of the basic statistics I suggested over a few weeks & post them. if anyone knows of .tar.gz cpunk archives somewhere, I could do it that much faster. some may object & think this will only add to the noise, but hey, as I always say, if you cant beat em, join em :p