[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:36 AM 7/6/2001 -0400, Craig Spencer wrote: Julian Morrison wrote: a) If you do business with unidentified people, you can be dragged into their crimes, you can be swindled, and you can help crime in general prosper. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified.

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Craig Spencer
Julian Morrison wrote: a) If you do business with unidentified people, you can be dragged into their crimes, you can be swindled, and you can help crime in general prosper. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are criminals. Identification may

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Dale Pond
Craig Spencer wrote: Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are criminals. Identification may filter out some of the criminals but it does not filter out all of them and it interferes with some perfectly legitimate business. A broader view

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Craig Spencer
I was interested to see on the Web of Trust page about path servers http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/pathserver that I gave earlier that someone has recently gotten a path server going again. http://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html As an illustration of its operation, looking for a

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Craig Spencer
Dale, You pose an important question to understand and answer. But fortunately the answer, rightly understood, is not a difficult one. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are criminals. Identification may filter out some of the criminals

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Craig Spencer
Dale, I neglected to reply to your last paragraph. An interesting dilema for e-gold is Whose definitions are they going to use? Why? How are they going to be implemented? Where? At what cost and especially By whom? E-gold is an independent business owned and run by responsible adults.

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Dale Pond
Craig Spencer wrote: Dale, You pose an important question to understand and answer. But fortunately the answer, rightly understood, is not a difficult one. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are criminals. Identification may filter

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Julian Morrison
Craig Spencer wrote: Julian Morrison wrote: a) If you do business with unidentified people, you can be dragged into their crimes, you can be swindled, and you can help crime in general prosper. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Julian Morrison
Dale Pond wrote: Craig Spencer wrote: Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified. It is that they are criminals. Identification may filter out some of the criminals but it does not filter out all of them and it interferes with some perfectly legitimate

[e-gold-list] Re: On Crooks vs. honest people

2001-07-06 Thread Julian Morrison
Julian Morrison wrote: Craig Spencer wrote: Julian Morrison wrote: a) If you do business with unidentified people, you can be dragged into their crimes, you can be swindled, and you can help crime in general prosper. Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are