Dear Friends, Someone inquired with me about "seven dozen Texans" dead at Mount Carmel. I guess 1993 was a while ago. As Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up."
It has long seemed to me that people seeking copies of driver licenses and passports are just begging to have their customers send them fake IDs. It seems even easier to put together a "utility bill" given what graphics tools are readily available. What possible purpose do these requirements serve? I guess there are many ways to write "CYA." Does anyone in the e-gold community perform .ca registrations for gold? Dale Pond laments the lack of a Global Digital Currencies Association to track reputations, provide accountability procedures, establish dispute resolution processes, and help get things sorted out. The last I heard, and this statement was last week, the new GDCA will be launching in a week's time. (For the record, I heard the same thing two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and four weeks ago, but, what the hey! If NASA can hold its countdowns, so may the GDCA!) Curiously, Cambist.net is very transparent about the names of our principals: http://goldbarterholdings.com/principals.cgi as well as photos of us (ain't we handsome?;-) and curricula vitae on each. We also provide details on our site as to our locations. We operate across a broad array of jurisdictions. We aren't exchange agents of e-gold. We are an independent exchange provider, and we are not affiliated with e-gold. We aren't their agents in any sense of the term. And, we are a documented "Authorized Gold Interchange Operator" (AGIO) which became an acronym some time after I pointed out that the word "agio" expresses the difference in value between two metal monies. (The term in English for "exchange provider" is "cambist.") Now, it just so happens that to become an AGIO, we provided e-gold.com with paperwork to satisfy their "due diligence" requirements. Included were valid identity papers and valid utility bills, because that's who we are in the matter. No fake IDs here. Now, there are non-listed exchange providers who do not carry the e-gold "AGIO" logo, and aren't listed on the e-gold site. What to do in a free market? People are free to offer exchange services. Maybe users should have an opportunity to rate these independent unlisted services...which the GDCA means to offer. I think there is already a currency registry doing something similar. E-gold has in fact done an excellent job of setting up a network of exchange providers who are verified by them and validated in various ways, and under special terms of obligation to e-gold, Ltd. You can follow the links on the e-gold site to find out what the terms are all about. We are actionable in every way. I live for action. In fact, a whole raft of exchange providers who were selling OSGold have been named in an action brought before the Federal District Court for Southern NY. (Cambist.net never sold that stuff, so we were not cited in the civil action.) Most of what are identified by outsiders as problems with e-gold are in fact problems with any currency. People scam cash, checks, and credit cards, too, but they don't seem to post here about those issues, for some reason. Oh, yeah, it isn't all that relevant to this list. Auction fraud can take place whether the user spends e-gold or credit card money to satisfy the auction payment. Escrow fraud has the same features, no matter what money is used. More Ponzi schemes have been run by governments and private parties involving currencies other than e-gold than have been operated using e-gold. The longest running of these is called "Social Security." (More people of my age believe that they will be abducted by aliens than believe we'll ever see a penny of the money diverted into Social Security.) That's why the GDCA will be important. It will help provide recourse for those who have been defrauded, no matter what the cause, no matter what the currency. Next week, I'm sure. <grin> By the way, there is no e-gold, Inc. It is e-gold, Ltd. Jefferson went way outside constitutional bounds by operating undeclared wars on various pirate groups. This behavior on his part has led to today's civil asset forfeitures, which threaten individual liberty. The Supreme Court, in ruling that a woman whose ex-husband "borrowed" her car to cruise for prostitutes should lose her car because it was used in a crime, cited the piracy history of what became asset forfeiture. Isn't that cool? Jefferson acts unconstitutionally two hundred years ago and some poor woman loses her car as a result. Even the "good politicians" aren't to be trusted with political power. ("The Ring of Power must be destroyed!") SnowDog points out:
The exchange service in question, is not listed on their website.
Yeah, but eForex is a reputable exchanger nonetheless. I've done exchanges with Vlad, and he's a good guy. (Not to be confused with Vlad the Impaler of late medieval Transylvania!) So he's fixated on wanting IDs from his customers? Big deal.
the eCTA was an attempt to establish accountability
Well put, and precisely correct.
shortly there will be
Next week, I'm told. <grin>
another exchange association developed just for this purpose, with arbitration procedures outlined.
Nope. The Global Digital Currencies Association is not just an association of exchangers. It is open to currency providers, it is open to merchants, it is open to individuals. It will attempt to list and rate all businesses in our economy. If you want to know whether someone listed is reputable, you'll look for the seal of approval. Platinum and gold seals indicate high levels of trust and will be backed by funded guarantees of the GDCA. Copper will be the standard run-of-the-mill setting where everyone starts off. Chlorine will be for those with many demerits and unresolved disputes. What's more, the GDCA will provide a dispute resolution service. Bruno types:
FBI and Police is on the case,
Oh, well, what a relief. <smirk> These are the same guys that did such a great job catching that outlaw Eric Robert Rudolph, right? And they kept all those planes safe on 11-Sep-01. Yeah, with them on the case, there should be no worries. Regards, Jim http://cambist.net/ --- 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.
