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Re: Not a good idea...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin)
Fri Mar 8 10:49:09 1996

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:42:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603080546.XAA00397@proust.suba.com>

On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Alex Strasheim wrote:

> I might be stretching things a bit, but couldn't you call a CA a "review
> service"?  Essentially instead of having a banned list, you have an 
>"accepted list". > 

Nice try.  Wish my students were that creative.  I don't think it works,
though, at least when CA's represent that their info is suitable for
relying parties to use in financial transactions (something Siskel & Ebert
do not do!). 

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