From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 03:48:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: anonymous companies
Message-ID: <199605180506.WAA03476@netcom8.netcom.com>
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Hal wrote:

> It might be interesting to make a list of all the problems people can
> think of why this idea won't work, paired with proposed solutions and
> workarounds - sort of a mini FAQ for this important (some might say
> ultimate) cypherpunk model.

Another interesting question is how you do personnel selection for an
anonymous enterprise.  One possibility would be anonymous reputation
passing, but I don't know any protocols for this.  A participant would also
want to take any positive reputation accruing away when the enterprise
finished.  (And the rest of us would want any negative reputation to stick
as well.)


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