-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
It occurs to me that it would be good if people sent in some non-governmental/hierarchial solutions to this problem, such as ones using digital cash as "postage" for prioritized mail.
I read an article on various Internet pricing schemes a while ago and one of the ideas was a pretty clever solution. Internet services would be classified according to their bandwidth requirement and need for interactivity. The cost per byte of e-mail might be very cheap whereas the cost per byte for videoconferencing might be more. There's no real way to rip off this scheme, because if you try to send an e-mail and classify it as "high priority" it is more expensive. - --Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMVmq47Zc+sv5siulAQEIPwP/UG53An/wt2YzhBsxjFUDCK6eXwnVgPCg jCCxRCGIKOZXeTUfXxK390+XyZqFnue9TjJU1o5g+zMDqBei8AYCx7q3GV94BdPL 2dBFp4IszlNX+KDQs6XUYHkZP6sIIJZrN8wRA7yOhVQZWguzUPhkX71DkilYw2lO o1sqOAgsviU= =RXt3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----