[e-gold-list] Re: calling all exchange providers

2003-12-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
Sure, www.cyfrocash.com does exactly that. But the fees are steep. Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberfrontier.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

[e-gold-list] Re: market thrills ..

2003-12-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
Fourthly -- the sensation of being paid .62 grams, forty times, at Noon on the first of the month is something like this: imagine waking up in the morning, but you aren't tired or hungry and have no cobwebs in your eyes, you sit up in zero gravity and find you are sitting naked in the

[e-gold-list] Re: Fraudster apprehended!

2003-12-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
Good Job !!! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[e-gold-list] CyberFrontier Hosting // DDOS attack // Finale

2003-12-02 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Everyone, It appears that we do have a few clients hosting with us whom we can't contact. Especially among the Privacy Hosting packages there are several clients we could not send their new access details, because the mail box the hosting account had been opened with either does not exist

[e-gold-list] Re: comglomerated gold

2003-11-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
Sidd, Untrue... 1g e-gold has ALWAYS been = to 1g Pecunix... Try it for yourself http://open2exchange.com/buy.sell...c2c What about the transaction fees on the deposit at pecinux? I think you have misunderstood Viking completely... Hence there has to be actual proof of the gold

[e-gold-list] Re: comglomerated gold

2003-11-28 Thread Robert B.Z.
How would such a conglomerated gold currency be a fiat currency? Sorry about the term abuse. I often use fiat incorrectly because of the insecurities it implies and because I want to differenciate from other digital currencies. While my idea of fiat is not necessarily correct I do assess it

[e-gold-list] Re: Another reason to use Mozilla

2003-11-28 Thread Robert B.Z.
Happy Birthday JRM !!! May you live long and prosper ;o) Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberfrontier.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz budget domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- You are currently subscribed to

[e-gold-list] Re: UFO progress!

2003-11-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Graham, All my NZ customers will be invited for a flight (if they trust my flying!) Next year, we plan to move to Europe with the machine. Are you selling concessions for in-flight gold sales, yet? ;o) Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a

[e-gold-list] Re: comglomerated gold

2003-11-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
You exchange 100g of e-gold for 100g of comgold. Those 100g of comgold aren't guaranteed to be redeemable for e-gold, but are guaranteed to be redeemable for 100g total of any of the currently underlying GBCs (17g pecunix, 13g goldmoney, 16g e-bullion, 14g 1mdc, 40g e-gold) due to the flux of

[e-gold-list] CyberFrontier Hosting // DDOS attack

2003-11-26 Thread Robert B.Z.
This is the email sent to all clients on server05, but to make sure, I'm posting it here as well. After all, server05 is our 'gold' server :o) Hello Everyone, As most of you would have noticed, the web sites hosted on our Server 05 were not accessible since Sunday, but have been coming back

[e-gold-list] Re: Attn: Cyberica.net - Cyberfrontier

2003-11-25 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jon, Sorry, we should mention to everyone that we have always had very good service through this company (Cyberfronier - cyberica.net) and this seems to be the first problem we have had from them over the past year of service. There site - www.cyberica.net is also down so their seems to

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold Server Down

2003-11-25 Thread Robert B.Z.
How long do you anticipate that the e-gold servers will be down? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi craig, we are currently investigating what seems to be a DDOS type attack which overwhelms the network capacity of a website with dummy requests. jay w. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jay,

[e-gold-list] Re: Cyberfrontier

2003-11-25 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Graham, Thanks for letting me know about the post. It never appeared to me to check back here while we try to save the livelyhood on the poor souls on server05... Cheers, Robert. www.cyberfrontier.net --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

[e-gold-list] CF$ - dDOS - Server05

2003-11-23 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Everyone, One of our servers (s05) which hosts among others the online accounting of cyfrocash.net has been under a somewhat unusually large dDOS barrage for the past few hours. Of course, backups are in place and there is no reason for concern other than that some 200 websites are down as

[e-gold-list] Re: Clearing Mechanism for IG's

2003-11-22 Thread Robert B.Z.
There is one minor issue though: Open2Exchange - or any other operator - would not only need to accept all currencies, they would also need to hold substiantial reserves in each. Of course, things would be far easier if currency operators began to exchange correspondence accounts, but that is

[e-gold-list] Re: Delayed payments

2003-11-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Patrick, Great that you remember as well. Looking around me I was beginning to wonder if my youth was just a product of my vivid imagination :o) Jens, You are right, of course, that two types of acounts, current and saving, so to say, would be the way to go. However, then e-gold runs the risk of

[e-gold-list] Re: Gold-Cart Article... trusting e-gold/delayed payments

2003-11-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Sidd, Pecunix is just *too* good to be convenient for heavy users ;o) By the way, how about adding a routine that calls Open2Exchange to convert pecunix into e-gold? It would be a neat extension of the GoldCart Pecunix ... trio and you's get to collect fees three times (Merchants would just pass

[e-gold-list] Re: the all in one IG system .. JP speaks

2003-11-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
JP, How about taking it a step further? How about making a simple click to pay with gold pop-up that lets users select their IG to pay gr/$eqv while the merchant picked the IG he wants to receive it in when he set it up? Charge a flat fee, independent from the amount, and plaster 1MDC.com all over

[e-gold-list] Re: trusting e-gold

2003-11-20 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny: 1) Option to have email notification whenever somebody logs in to my account... I'm almost sold - the fact that it would be optional and I can turn it off, would do it for me ;o) The privacy issue would have been less the content of the message, but the sender. Check citizen

[e-gold-list] Re: Gold-Cart Article

2003-11-20 Thread Robert B.Z.
And the funny thing is that I said about 24 hours ago that something like that was exactly what was needed - of course I suggested e-gold instead of pecunix - but I will give this a try. Would be great if it worked with evocash, but I guess that might be a bit much to ask :o) Thanks Sidd. Cheers,

[e-gold-list] Re: trusting e-gold (was Re: Finding serious e-gold investors...)

2003-11-19 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Danny 1) Option to have email notification whenever somebody logs in to my account and whenever a transaction is done. You do have a point there. Of course, there is the issue about privacy. Emails are not exactly secure and I can think of several reasons why someone wouldn't want an

[e-gold-list] Re: goldfingercoin.com

2003-11-19 Thread Robert B.Z.
Plus the de facto currencies that are often e-gold based, such as Gold-Price.net, virtualgold.net, even freetraders.org in a way. I think most exchangers start at one point or another to toy with the idea of becoming the 'better e-gold'. Cheers, Robert. PS - Sometimes there is method to my

[e-gold-list] Re: goldfingercoin.com

2003-11-19 Thread Robert B.Z.
Jim, Gold price network is a currency? It is operated by Joel Bruce of Asiana Gold exchange, I think. G-P Members can trade with grams of gold, exchangable for e-gold as well as redeemable for nuggets as I recall. I did not realize freetraders was based on e-gold, or a currency. Not

[e-gold-list] Re: Finding serious e-gold investors...

2003-11-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Drew, I know, I am not Gordon, but think that he is likely to have similar thoughts on the subject. If you promoted and advertised the logo's of other payment options (Pecunix, Goldmoney etc) as much as you did e-gold and paypal then you might find that people started paying in these

[e-gold-list] Re: E-GOLD MOVES TO BAN ICE CREAM ?!????

2003-11-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
Life is a lot more helter skelter than it has been in past decades, when you had more down time and, with less distractions, probably a more focused, less confused, sense of reality. Sad but true. I wonder if people with less choices end up being overall happier? Cheers, Robert. budget

[e-gold-list] Re: Finding serious e-gold investors...

2003-11-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny I do agree that most accounts have a small balance, but that holds true for the amount of money many people have in their wallets, does it not? People appear to be treating e-gold as money, something they use to buy things with - which is what we promote it for in Asia, by the way - not as

[e-gold-list] Re: GolNow or should we say GoldNEVER ServiceComplaint

2003-11-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
No, Robert is not always right. Don't I know this better than most ;o) But I do keep trying. For a entity with over 2 customers it should be no problem to manage its DGC stock the right way. If an entitiy has over 20,000 customers, then these customers seem to prefer dealing with that

[e-gold-list] Re: GolNow or should we say GoldNEVER Service Complaint

2003-11-17 Thread Robert B.Z.
Has it appeared to you that Graham might just not have any DMT/Alta funds? As far as I can see he actually posted here trying to find some... It's amazing how people always believe that exchangers have to have stock of every paltry DGC and carry the risk of price fluctuations, provide instant

[e-gold-list] Re: Finding serious e-gold investors...

2003-11-17 Thread Robert B.Z.
Jim, do you know if e-gold will ever again commission an audit? Also, is the old audit still on the site somewhere? I didn't find it in the site map, and the word audit does not even appear in the User Agreement. With over 1,000,000 accounts and the highest volume/turn-over in terms of

[e-gold-list] Re: Hosting

2003-11-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
Look no further than www.cyberica.net or our esteemed friends at www.katzglobal.com Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz budget domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] Re: High-interest accounts?

2003-11-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
What's the best rate (either vs. gold or vs. dollar or vs other relatively stable currency or commodity) that you've heard of? 100% yield on 1:1.8 risk ratio. It's called Roulette ;o) Sorry, just had to. Cheers, Robert. PS - Lotto has higher profits, but the odds about the same as Saddam

[e-gold-list] Re: new trustee

2003-11-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
As long as it isn't T. Rusty it's fine by me... Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz budget domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as:

[e-gold-list] Re: there's a doji for you JimD

2003-11-14 Thread Robert B.Z.
Jim, Thank goodness that double top was blown out of the water! = My thoughts exactly. I would have waited having to sit and wait to see if the $370 holds. What is your take on the likely machine buying targets? Meaning, will traders have buy orders after a close above $400.00 or will they

[e-gold-list] Re: Shoppers Spend e-gold at Amazon.com

2003-11-14 Thread Robert B.Z.
JPM, Your comment would be like complainign to Visa card about the prices at a shop! :) = Now that is an idea. I wonder if VISA would respond to such a complaint. I mean, in my experience their customer support staff seems not exactly to be burdened with a high IQ. To put it in other words,

[e-gold-list] Re: Meltdown in Middle East Ignites Gold

2003-11-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
The question may well be if we have seen an interim double-top? Of course, as the noise increases and more people jump on the wagon there might be momentum to push it above the 400 anytime. The interesting bit will be when the big boys start taking profits again and if a price below $370 (if the

[e-gold-list] Re: e-wine (was Re: density and other matters - e-land now!)

2003-11-09 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny, ... I am still lucky enough to get sex free of charge :-) Had too much early redemptions of e-wine and e-snow, huh? Since when has there ever been free sex in history? Are you saying a neighbour drops by, gets busy and buggers off afterwards? Anything else is not 'free'. Consider the

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-08 Thread Robert B.Z.
JP, why don't you rise to the occasion? ;o) As Danny says, Money is what people are willing to accept as such, and if structured in a way that it generate revenue on it's own without being subject to risky market movements (ie. might be a good idea not to base e-land on a block of flats), it may

[e-gold-list] Re: Nuts

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jim, At it again, are we? :o) You know, Graham paid a hefty price for promoting OSgold, having put his wallet where his mouth was. Now, if INTgold is another dud, he is likely to get burnt another hole into his pocket. I understand that innocent till proven guilty does not apply in line

[e-gold-list] Re: The problem of land value (was:Re: gold four pillars)

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello David, Isn't your model a bit too abstract, yet at the same time incomplete as it does not allow for growing population and continued reduction in arable land? What I mean to say is that due to continued net growth in population (allowing for reductions in some industrialized nations being

[e-gold-list] Re: Nuts

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
Howdy. Getting by. Shall I mark you down for the cheering section? Yay lions, boo Christians? So now you are against lions too, are you? What on Earth did they do, other than play with their food before eating it? I think you mistake a discussion list for a court of law. Naw, is just

[e-gold-list] Re: The problem of land value (was:Re: gold four pillars)

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
David, I stand corrected. Should stop posting all the time and get back into reading theory ;o) Thanks for clearing it up. Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz budget domain registrations

[e-gold-list] Re: The problem of land value (was:Re: gold four pillars)

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
JPM, Until we run out of natural gas to make fertilizer with... Also, not everyone favors gentechnology grown on cardboard and while there is enough to feed to world several times over, I wonder if there still was when there were no more subsidies. And while prices for food do indeed keep

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
There are many shades of grey Jim. Please don't take what I consider responsible behaviour as an indication that you finally figured out under which category to sort me. I might in fact not fit into any and yet in a way into most of the mutually exclusive categories you seem to have created to

[e-gold-list] Re: Yes I'm Trusted --- asianagold.com

2003-11-06 Thread Robert B.Z.
Aren't Malaysian customers just great? Not only has there to the best of my knowledge never been any problems, they also recognize good service when they see and appreciate when they receive it. And that is about 50% of the reason why we picked Malaysia as our Asian base. Congrats Joel. :o)

[e-gold-list] Laughing about Life, an Indian perspective

2003-11-06 Thread Robert B.Z.
One of our hosting clients is acclaimed Richard Crasta ( www.richardcrasta.com ), who offers all his books online and accepts e-gold as a payment option. The site also has some nice tidbits and sample chapters from some of his of writings, and if you like my sickening sense of humour, you'll love

[e-gold-list] Re: Purpose of Saving

2003-11-05 Thread Robert B.Z.
One more reason people want to be able to rely on the value of money, so that there is an actual benefit to save the surplus capital income to aquire more capital later-on. Hence we are back on the old argument that money is more likely to have a consistent value, if it is redeemable for

[e-gold-list] Re: something weird happening in Asia

2003-11-04 Thread Robert B.Z.
That's a great arbitrage opportunity. All you have to do is take your dollars, exchange them for pesos, exchange those for Euros, and exchange back to dollars. You should have 4% more dollars. Repeat this again with as much money as possible. The problem there is only that I have to start

[e-gold-list] Re: Rebilling idea

2003-11-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Everyone, We actually have a system in which we rebill on behalf of several clients (factoring, for lack of a better word?) by email. The sytem is pretty simple, so I'm not sure if what you are talking about is really needed. Our clients submit the email address, billing details, billing

[e-gold-list] Re: inflation ( was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-11-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
People do not buy 10 times more shoes with the extra money. ___Explain that to my wife please :o) They buy one pair of shoes, just like 50 years ago, but now they have money left for a mobile phone, a PC, a mountain bike, a massage,... ___ It is not entirely true though. The shoes

[e-gold-list] Re: decision time for gold price!

2003-11-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
Now there is a smart way to gauge the group's expectations. The trouble is then only, would you use contrarian techniques or go with the flow? Decissions, decissions... Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a profitable online business

[e-gold-list] something weird happening in Asia

2003-11-03 Thread Robert B.Z.
It appears that there is a gap of up to 4% between USD EUR exchange rates and exchanging USDPHPEUR. Depending on the time of the day and as a strictly cash-only business, it appears as if the USD is valued 2-4% higher in terms EUR against the Philippine Peso. That means, if one exchanges $10,000

[e-gold-list] Re: How good is gold?

2003-10-31 Thread Robert B.Z.
Patrick, So basically the best choice is arable land with highly fertile soil, ocean view, access to a sandy beach, sitting on a deep-core gold mine and being in short distance but upwind from an International airport :o))) Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net

[e-gold-list] Re: How good is gold? (was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-10-31 Thread Robert B.Z.
John, Sounds nifty until you realize Kyoto is a BS government scarcity decree on the world economy. Climate shifts from warm periods to deep ice ages have come and gone well before we ever got here and the factors affecting such things are probably beyond our powers, and up to much greater

[e-gold-list] Re: inflation ( was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-10-31 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny, So the ultimate result is pretty much the same. Without extra money supply the average person would now be able to buy 10 times more shoes for his money, because they have become cheaper. With the extra money supply the average person now has 10 times more money to buy these shoes

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold for stocks

2003-10-30 Thread Robert B.Z.
Increasing the money supply does not necessarily imply increasing the amount of monies circulated. The fact that JP' 1MDC does not 'use' the e-gold we deposit with them, doesn't change the fact that it exists. Say you buy a house and and rent it out. You then proceed taking out a loan and buying

[e-gold-list] Re: How good is gold? (was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-10-30 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny, If you create 'e-land' , an e-currency backed by land ownership, you can transfer pieces of the ownership just like we do with e-gold, but this currency will be able to pay a yearly 'interest' based on the produce that comes from the land, instead of charging a storage fee for

[e-gold-list] Re: How good is gold? (was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-10-30 Thread Robert B.Z.
George, Trouble is, that land could also grow radioactive dumps or a spaceport for turism to Jupiter. The value of that land can change because some people decide to do something with it or near it. Property value depends too much of local factors, while gold does not. --- That is correct,

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold for stocks

2003-10-30 Thread Robert B.Z.
Patrick, Just one item: Inflation isn't the same as rising prices. Not every inflation results in higher prices and higher prices are not always caused by inflation. Having an increase in the money supply with stagnant supply of goods and services only leads to higher prices when merchants charge

[e-gold-list] Re: How good is gold? (was Re: e-gold for stocks)

2003-10-30 Thread Robert B.Z.
Just a comment to the footnote. As mentioned we have insurance against government actions. And we are also 25 years tax exempt on land, produce, sale, income, etc. Gold is so much easier to take and run with. Real property is slightly more difficult - especially the running part, if not the

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold for stocks

2003-10-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
JP, Yep you are right, the use of the term fiat is incorrect. I should have called it paper which is what I meant. Oh and thanks for calling me mad. Appreciate the compliment. After all, the various forms and terms referring to insanity are all basing the definition of sane on the overall quotient

[e-gold-list] Shares N Gold continued

2003-10-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
Looking at the replies to my recent posts I am starting to wonder if people could really be so stuck in value judgements or their views of the world to ignore simple mathematics. Opening the newspaper, I know they are. Amazingly, the programmers knew right away where I was coming from and where I

[e-gold-list] Re: GoldAge $1,600 funding order. Where have you dissapeared after I sent you the money, Ragnar?

2003-10-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
Same here. We have had dealings with GoldAge for a while and I know Ragnar as honest and helpful. If there indeed was some sort of problem, then you are not telling the whole story. Either way, if you sent them money and they received it, then you can be pretty sure to receive your e-gold spend.

[e-gold-list] Re: GoldAge is honest reliable

2003-10-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
He is definitely an idiot. And he must have not had any human contact for a while. I mean, sucking an ass whole is impossible, because the donkey won't hold still. Sucking an ass' hole is difficult as well, because it's attached to the ass. If we allow for the American spelling of the word

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold for stocks

2003-10-29 Thread Robert B.Z.
Your point is well taken, but you made one small mistake there, JP. 1mdc does NOT expand the money supply in any way. -- Patrick In a way it actually does. Much in the same way a bank deposit or holding a plug type=sales balance in a CF$ customer account /plug does. You see, when you 'deposit'

[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold for stocks

2003-10-28 Thread Robert B.Z.
Well Jim, you see, we have borrowed against our shares to buy more shares to borrow against and we then traded some gold puts and ended up with almost twice the fiat we had started with and get to keep a cut of the dividends as well. We then bought e-gold from our own subsidiary at no surcharge,

[e-gold-list] Re: What is TGC Share?

2003-10-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny, Did you know that when stocks of share were first introduced, they were redeemable at base/face value? Similar to a partnership where one party wants out, shares could be returned to the company and sold at the base value which was determined through the actual sale value of the company's

[e-gold-list] Re: Looking for a server

2003-10-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Karl, I am not sure why everyone thinks that the location of the server is relevant in terms of legalities when courts have clearly decided that the location of the operator is paramount. Of course, French courts went as far as saying that the location of buyers is the most relevant point

[e-gold-list] Re: What is TGC Share?

2003-10-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Which historical period / region are you thinking about there, Robert ?? Up to and just prior to the South Sea Bubble :o) The times where people still believed that something had to be exchanged in a fair trade. But as many a reputable business had issued shares and used the revenue to

[e-gold-list] Re: gold on paper

2003-10-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jim, I was wondering what kept you :o) In fact I was not speaking out against shares - or didn't mean to - at least initialy. I was trying to set the stage for what my latter post was meant to achieve namely warn about *possible* inflationary tendencies of e-gold derivatives, for lack of a

[e-gold-list] Re: Sell six-digit egold account?

2003-10-26 Thread Robert B.Z.
Well, now that you made it abundantly clear to everyone that 'old' accounts can be traded, the value of an early account in terms of trust has diminished, n'est-ce pas? I would say that special sequences are more likely to actually instill trust, because only e-gold can asign those and they

[e-gold-list] Re: What is TGC Share?

2003-10-26 Thread Robert B.Z.
Has it appeared to anyone that we are essentially turning our gold into paper when we invest in stocks? Just wondering. I know, people will now argue that shares are traded in gold and exchangeable only for gold and that therefore the share 'represent' gold. By the same token, I'd argue that it

[e-gold-list] Re: What's up with PrivaGold?

2003-10-24 Thread Robert B.Z.
the HTTP port is blocked - ssh still works though... hmm...) That usually suggests that the host suspended them. Shutting down the web server is first of three degrees of separation :o) Next is account suspension (no more mail, ftp, etc.), followed by deleting the BIND record and account. If

[e-gold-list] Re: dispute between Remco Boom and an exchanger

2003-10-24 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Remco, From what I hear they are above board beyond belief :o) Meaning that yes, they DO have that many accounts and transactions that it is entirely possible that they didn't find your transfer because it was labeled incorrectly or whatever else reason they might give. Don't forget, this

[e-gold-list] Re: HUGE, long-term Australian bank heist

2003-10-23 Thread Robert B.Z.
Just about indefinitely :o) The article suggests that he took different amounts, from which I deduct that he actually grabbed it from internal accounts in which transfer funds are parked (you know, the accounts where the money is that was transferred to someone, arrive 6 nanoseconds later and then

[e-gold-list] Happy Deepavali :o)

2003-10-22 Thread Robert B.Z.
Happy Festival of Lights, Deepavali, to all our Hindu friends. 'CyberFrontier' is closed Friday through Sunday. Of course tech support and exchanger support will continue to operate throughout, but we can't garantee the typical response times of under 20 minutes during those days. Banks in

[e-gold-list] Re: question on coins

2003-10-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jens, You do of course have a point, but I think the reason for coins is mainly that they are with us as since shortly after the concept of money was invented (metal supplies permitting and shell money and similar exemptions not withstanding). Old habits die hard, I suppose. I do actually

[e-gold-list] Re: fake V-cash login spam

2003-10-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jim, Divin, our resident tech says that this one is either being sent from a guy who uses own mail account, or alternatively the mail servers allow unverified relays. Seems the provider is http://www.optonline.net/ and they appear to have ignored a nudge we sent them three days ago. At

[e-gold-list] Re: Difference between bank wire and ACH ?

2003-10-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Okay here goes: ACH is a proprietary, American system that compliments the account system structure of associated banks and identifies recepients based on the sorting code and account number. It uses a central database that sorts incoming and outgoing transactions based on the sorting code and

[e-gold-list] Re: The One eyed man...

2003-10-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Graham, This is from my personal experience, and personal opinion. And you are spot on as well :o) I was trying not to lash out too harshly, thinking that many people on the list might have not seen or experienced efficient banking systems and hence dismiss my remarks as mere rantings. I have

[e-gold-list] Re: Mock trial

2003-10-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Oh goodie, Can I file 'friends of the court' briefs? Serious, if you go through with it, then that would be something worth saving and linking to for people who don't know what it's all about, just yet. Count me in. Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net

[e-gold-list] Re: fraud and more fraud

2003-10-20 Thread Robert B.Z.
I wonder if this SCIbot mail is partially real? As noted above the spend fee is incorrect, which would allow to calculate the amount of the real spend. That, together with other indicators that might match an actual transactionmight give e-gold an indication which real e-gold accounts were

[e-gold-list] RE: scammer

2003-10-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
Now that is a problem. I was always wondering how long it would take until crooks started to use the names of repectable people and the nasty under their name just to damage their reputation. The trouble is that the way some things are set up (especially the name space) these actions are just

[e-gold-list] Re: The Nature of Value

2003-10-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
When a child is born, it values its mothers breast above anything else (if the child is male, valuing breasts is likely to stick with him till he dies). As the child grows up and learns from its suroundings, it realizes what people are placing value on and how that value is measured. Sooner or

[e-gold-list] Re: microcommerce

2003-10-18 Thread Robert B.Z.
Because if you don't feed the cow, it will die. And if you don't protect it, someone will it. Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net e-commerce e-business services http://www.cyfrocash.net budget domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- You are

[e-gold-list] Re: Offtopic discussions

2003-10-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
Well Gordon, Marriage has traditionally more to do with money than most other subjects we have discussed. Interestingly, the Germans were the first to call the kid by it's name. They define a marriage as a 'union for the purpose of accumulation' and have one of their really long words that nobody

[e-gold-list] Re: China Gold

2003-10-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Joe, It is unlikely that it would change anything on the currency situation, really. The Chinese (Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, ASEAN, South Africa -take your pick) are interested in a weak currency in dollar terms and will continue to buy all dollars as soon as they enter the country

[e-gold-list] Re: microcommerce

2003-10-16 Thread Robert B.Z.
Pitty we don't have enough geniuses (genii?) around, innit? Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net e-commerce e-business services http://www.cyfrocash.net budget domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as:

[e-gold-list] Re: Economic Incentives

2003-10-15 Thread Robert B.Z.
Patrick, Why would people say you are wrong? It is a fact that whatever a human creates serves one of three purposes: Commerce, Military, Pleasure. If there is commercial reason to build a road, people will build it. If people do not, the government will build it for the military/law

[e-gold-list] Re: Offtopic discussions

2003-10-15 Thread Robert B.Z.
Wouldn't you then risk Moderator battles? Oooohh? You moderateed my post? Wait, I'll buy some mod points and moderate it right back and declare all your posts as trolls and flame bait From experience with /. there is also the risk of 'revenche fouls'. Our chief tech has been moderating often

[e-gold-list] Re: Income tax

2003-10-14 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello George, I have often wondered if it was possible to do away with inflation, all taxes, etc. and simply replace them with a flexible GST (goods and services tax). The simplified version would look like this: Every good and service is subject to a surcharge of say 5%, without exemption.

[e-gold-list] Re: Income tax

2003-10-14 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Helen, There are very good reasons for avoiding the cascading effects of such taxes. Like the horrible distortion and the massive vertical integration that would follow. Sorry, but could you elaborate? I'm pretty bad with the buzzwords du jour and under distortion I would understand

[e-gold-list] Re: The Myth of Insufficient Gold

2003-10-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
George, Actually the title refers to the argument by paper advocates that there might not be enough gold on the planet to facilitate all the daily transactions, international trade, etc, and that hence a liquidity crisis would follow if gold was used ad only denominator of exchange. Most here

[e-gold-list] Re: Prevent FACE reseller right, HOW?

2003-10-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
Now, it could be that the owner of the site actually bought the reseller rights from you under his own name? If not, then I guess you need to contact their hosting provider to get them shut down. Of course, you are cheaper anyway, so why would anyone buy from them? Cheers, Robert. budget

[e-gold-list] Re: Prevent FACE reseller right, HOW?

2003-10-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Ian, I am still waiting for a formal complaint from v2Gold. I tried to nicely hint what he was supposed to do, because the site is hosted with us. You know we don't get involved unless there is a reason. My post suggests that if v2Gold complained TO US, then I would have the reason to

[e-gold-list] Re: Prevent FACE reseller right, HOW?

2003-10-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
Actually the site has been suspended about 30 minutes ago, after we had a look to see if they had the v2Gold scripts stored on the machine (which they didn't) and found the trojans. Cheers, Robert. budget privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net e-commerce e-business services

[e-gold-list] Re: retailing the Moon

2003-10-13 Thread Robert B.Z.
At least he has a claim in accordance with the Terra (Luna?) Nullis rules used to establish ownership of otherwise unclaimed and uninhabited land. If the claim would stand in an International tribunal context is questionable. However, it maybe likely that there would be some kind of compensation,

[e-gold-list] Re: The Myth of Insufficient Gold

2003-10-12 Thread Robert B.Z.
Money is not added to the circulation by printing it and throwing it out of a helicopter over the people's houses. Instead it is being printed and either used by the gov to pay bills (most countries) or loaned to the gov to pay bills with (USA). However, if you look at the requestion costs of

[e-gold-list] Re: The Myth of Insufficient Gold

2003-10-12 Thread Robert B.Z.
George, I hope Patrick doesn't mind if I answer this one. Redeemability implies that the issuer of paper has the corresponding amount of gold in stock. This in turn means that the paper is synonymous with gold and that there can be only as much paper as there is gold. Exchange is something

[e-gold-list] Re: Islamic banking

2003-10-11 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jim, That's precisely why I'm against outlawing things. I guess that means you'd like to outlaw outlawing :o) But as you say yourself, ursury is morally highly questionable. And as the increasing absence of moral values, indeed the decay of morality in society continues to be replaced

[e-gold-list] Re: The Myth of Insufficient Gold

2003-10-11 Thread Robert B.Z.
Danny, Unfortunately vendor finance and lease back are common practice in many stores here for ages, already. While they don't call it rent per say, it boils down to monthly installments and the word interest appears nowhere. Most notably though, if an item costs say $500 cash, then the vendor

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