Re: Conservation Laws, Money, Engines, and Ontology

One thing that occurs here.  I imagine a scenario where you have a
"share" of resources on a system(and ISP for example).  You're metered as
to how much you can post or store.  Actually as it is now posting is
regulated through extra payments per meg above the limit.  Spam is being
somewhat regulated by Terms of Service type things, but my point is what is
to prevent pooling resources among several system to achive the same Spam
pursuits some have.  Say for example that an individual gets several
accounts to balance the load at thier point.  The Usenet for example has no
 "choke point".  How could ISP's apply conservation here?  If you limit the
amount of traffic you still aren't holding back the flow of "spam".
  Here's where reputations could come in.  You cound't open a new account
anywhere without a good "reputation".  This could aid in balancing the load
of certain people.

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Greg Kucharo
sophi@best.com
"Eppur si moeve" -Galileo
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On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Greg Kucharo wrote:

>   Here's where reputations could come in.  You cound't open a new account
> anywhere without a good "reputation".  This could aid in balancing the load
> of certain people.
	Hey, if we're going to do that, why not go all the way and 
imagine a "virtuous society" in which e-cash is based on reputation. In 
order to obtain v$, one must submit to a "reputation asessment" by one of 
several firms, which then issue a given amount of v-cash based on their 
findings. An ISP simply requires an arbitrary amount of v-cash along with 
the usual $$ every month. At the end of the month, your friendly Moral 
Monitor greps thru Usenet and all the mailing lists he monitors looking 
for your name, then adjusts your account accordingly. 

Different moral codes would have different agencies. :-)

For this service, of course, you pay a modest fee. But it's a small price 
to pay for spiritual peace of mind. Perhaps we'd see the rise of 
reputation constultants in such a system. How about people with such large 
"fortunes" that they create wealth simply by being associated with 
someone else? 

Don't forget the block meetings. :-> 

-David Molnar

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