RE: Hard to Tax Scenario

[Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>]

At 10:24 PM 3/29/97 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>(By the way, I'm going to embarass Doug Barnes now by naming a law after
>him. He said a thing of beauty at FC97: "Any transaction protocol which
>has, as one of it's steps, '...and then you call the cops', isn't a real
>good idea on the internet." Shall we call it Barnes' Law, anyone? Sure,
>lots have said it before, but no one's said it better...)

Actually, I think it was "...and then you punish them". I second the motion.
:-)



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