At 7:25 AM -0600 1/27/03, Dale Pond wrote: ... >I find this situation fairly amazing. E-gold has been in operation for >several years now and still there is no accountability, arbitration or >method of dispute resolution. Perhaps this is on purpose? What purpose ...
e-gold is just a currency. Your message both assumes a membership function that's not there & proposes that e-gold become a certification- authority. The account user agreement greatly circumscribes what e-gold Ltd. *itself* can do, and this (believe it or not) protects owners of e-gold accounts much more than if e-gold Ltd. were to try to be all- things to all-people. There are _MANY_ opportunities involved in the things that e-gold Ltd. does *not* do - (ask the sellers of plastic cards, for example). Certification, accountability, protection-insurance, and dozens of other good things would all be wonderful. Chances are, a few piles of gold are sitting there on the ground waiting for someone to pick them up right now, just as there were with plastic cards a few years ago. Consider, a faulty certification of a crooked exchange service by a hypothetical currency (let's call it be-all/do-all-gold?). The crooks do what that very-wily ebay crook did, and build up a great reputation and huge book of business before taking the money and running. A panic ensues among Be-all/do-all-gold customers... If Be-all/do-all-gold.com is held responsible, the entire Be-all/do-all currency dies, rather than just a single crooked exchanger...Either choice is bad, but it's obvious which one I think is worse. JMR --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
