From: ferguson@icm1.icp.net (Paul Ferguson x2044)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 21:29:19 PST
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Subscriber encapsulation
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Eric <eric@ah.com> Hughes writes -

> Much of the debate on cypherpunks magically incants 'reputation
> systems' to solve all sorts of sticky problems, but none have ever
> been implemented in software, except for killfiles, which are not
> effective against disruption in an anonymous environment.

This is an interesting point within itself. Anon messages from
remailers such as <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> continually have the
same banner/header information, regardless of user (which in my
ideal anonymous environment is a GOO THING (tm)). Anon mail from
penet is account -ized and assigned -- not an ideal anonymous 
environment from my viewpoint.

The Net is still in its infancy, as far as I can assess. We will
all be much the historians, if the soothsayers are to be believed.

- Paul