From: dwomack@runner.utsa.edu (David L Womack)
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 17:54:35 PDT
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: the value of money
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> 
> You wrote:
> 
> 
> | Blanc Weber asks about the size of the money supply.  Uni points out that
> | 
> | It appears that the Magic Money/Tacky Token experiment is not succeeding
> | in producing an informal digital currency.  People have offered services
> 
> 	I think that this problem might well go back to the ease of
> use problem.  I spend a lot of my time reading bad documentation.  I
> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
BRAVO!  Magic Money is a grand idea, but I've never been able to make it work;
for me, at least, it was not "user friendly";  and I like to think I'm
not totally clueless, since it looks as if I'll pass Assembly Language
this semester ;-).  Can't a derivation of MM at least as easy to use
as PGP and/or UNIX be developed?  And, if we REALLY want it to take off,
how about something that is menu based that a typical commercial online 
user could learn to use at a minimal level in a few minutes?  No, I don't
have the skills to take on such a project...but if widespread use is the
goal, and if there are still fewer than 4000 hard-corps PGP users with
their keys on a keyserver, then it appears that someone needs to come up
with a program no more complex than PGP...preferably much simpler.

Regards,

Dave