[109153] in Cypherpunks
Lawyers eat "Reputation market at publicopinion.com"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (x@x.com)
Fri Mar 12 00:43:59 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:26:11 -0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: x <x@x.com>
Reply-To: x <x@x.com>
At 09:37 PM 3/11/99 -0500, damaged justice wrote:
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>According to the folks at free-market.net, publicopinion.com is now offering
>a service whereby users can read and post comments about companies, products
>and services.
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