From: "Meng Weng Wong" <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com>
Accreditation that is money-based is only one kind of
accreditation.
Any community-based, open source accreditation scheme is effectively going
to be the same as a reputation scheme.
There's also "here is an address where you can have the
police come and arrest me if I've broken the law".
I don't suppose you've had your car stolen? If so, you probably realise
that the law is too busy massaging itself to be bothered to actually
investigate anything or arrest anyone. Besides - in UK they don't have the
space in jails for anyone now because of all the cut-backs and economies. In
most countries they don't have any anti-spam law. China? India? Russia?
South America? That's probably more than half the world's population free to
spam. :-/
So accreditation enforcement _still_ doesn't address the problem of
international crime -- some law in USA means diddley-squat to a spammer
based in Bulgaria.
Slainte,
JohnP.
johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com
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