At 03:38 PM 6/11/03 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: even before e-commerce, the real >BBB process was that people called up the BBB and got realtime information >.... i.e. it was an online, realtime process. > >the equiivalent for an online, internet paradigm (as opposed to something >left over from the offline email genre of at least 10--15 years earlier) >was that the browswer tab;e pf trusted entities were of online authorities >(as opposed to certificate manufacturing) and if you cared, you clicked >thru to the BBB and got realtime information about the merchant in question >(being equivalent to when people call the BBB to actually get some level of >real input .... as opposed to just a fuzzy comfort fealing).
When I buy $20 of gas with non-bearer credentials (ie, credit card), the vendor does a real-time check on me. Seems fair/useful to be able to do same on them. I suppose eBay's feedback suffices... if their last N "feedbacks" are negative, I might go elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
