At 04:01 PM 6/12/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: >Or, I'll even go further. It was an example of "private law", >where the "law merchant" publishes a list of people who break >the laws they sell and then lets the market punish or not as >they choose. However flawed the list, and however obnoxious >the merchant was about the testing to create it, isn't that >exactly what many of you have been arguing for the right to do? > > Bear Goodness, you just invented the concept of reputation, in the non-govt-maintained sense.
