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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Anonymity and the Wakfers
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:34:50 +0200

On 19 Aug 2005, at 08:16,  wrote:

>
> Let's look at it from the other angle.  Is it logically valid to  
> give any
> more weight to information presented by a "known, reliable  
> source"?  Well,
> maybe if one is dealing in probabilities, but certainly not if one is
> dealing in confirming and verifying the validity of information.  If
> assessing probability, the reputation of the speaker of the  
> information
> should be given a very low weight if any at all.

This would be true assuming there was time to read all messages. If  
one must choose what messages to evaluate, then reputational  
information is crucial.


dss


David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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