At 03:18 AM 9/27/97 -0400, Anonymous (Monty Cantsin) wrote:
Just out of a curiousity, why is it that no remailers accept ecash?
The brutally simple way to do this would be to generate an ecash certificate, made out to cash, and tack it at the beginning of a message which is then encrypted for the remailer.
The answer to your question may be to first recast your questions and ask why would someone want to attach ecash? I assume you are trying to "pay" for the email you send. This goes against the general model of the internet. Unlike the phone company, the net peers freely with no interconnection charges, so inter lata charges do not have to be tracked and collected. This allows for a flat rate pricing scheme. For remailers, this flat rate is generally zero dollars, i.e. free. There are remailers of various types who offer services for a charge of some sort. This is generally a flat rate fee, either per month, or per year. There is likely no desire to price on a per item basis. If there were, I would think it would be in the millicent range of pricing. If I were to set up a for pay remailing system, I would prefer to have a per month, or per year fee. This is more for the nym model of remailer. I assume you mean the Type-I such as you are using now. It would be interesting to setup as a test, but I don't see there would be any market for it. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key