-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Jim Choate wrote:
[Tim May wrote: ed.]
Some will remail for some form of digital postage. Some will charge too little, some too much. Some will adjust their prices based on market/customer reactions. And so on.
And there are a couple of problems with this:
- it relies on a mechanism not currently in place to interface with other more traditional financial institutions. Which I might add don't look upon this as the most trustworthy mechanism.
Ecash is in place right now.
- how do you charge for the postage, per submission? What happens when I want to send 10,000 parties the email. Do I still pay the digi-postage equivalent of $.35? Or do I pay $350.00?
This is easily worked out between the remailer operator and the customer. Were I running a remailer, I would charge $350.00. As a customer, I would not see this as unreasonable.
What about intermediate remailers and their desire to get a cut of the pie?
Each hop should charge, of course. They are all providing the same service.
I suspect that anon remailers will operate by something similar to ISP's where when the account is setup some fee is paid for use and not on a use by use based fee. The problem with that is it creates a 'concrete' link between the party desiring anonymity and the remailer operator that may be exploited in some (most? all?) cases to break that anonymity.
The way to break the concrete link is with blinded credentials. Of course, ecash already provides this feature without the hassle of opening an account with a remailer operator, writing and deploying new software, etc. etc. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNC14U5aWtjSmRH/5AQHk1Qf+PTnZJmiFr3sFSvfoH51a/mpuhS4OhFJq HjVJhG1BIKcQjm2i4V/lZPqjKaUUD+UMpZcQb6KKy6OgHxYJwZlmCW+xnWslmTEH RMoBa6NUZS0xv8vhrOkpv+v/5CArowqaeTV/+P1q98E6SPhzgL1EpTLUZ8+M8LfC H1duBAL3xNNcVj9ZWnh6UyVKh7cCtCQOTZyDxtHXWovzrxuAKpsUVWcpF5IEoy1O k8Bv5vOUYKvxdEdVF9xSos7d8VvPgzWX+err1gtrZqVux4/nVg5EFfE/NghpGPVp 2pBY+Vq3iPdE6kUR6Qff7NJHtHClXUyHg+Ya9tyEDkGl+SuYz+JWMw== =28IQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----