-- At 08:43 PM 9/27/98 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
IBM is proposing that anyone, or many people, will be free to act as issuers of promises to pay in their proposed microcash system.
At 12:22 AM 9/28/98 -0400, Robert A. Costner wrote:
I don't think you gave a URL for the IBM system.
http://www.hrl.il.ibm.com/mpay
Since you got me interested, I went and looked at the "MilliCent" branded product from Digital/Compaq.
http://www.millicent.digital.com/
Millicent is currently free in that scrip is not cash. I have to laugh in that MilliCent has a granularity of 1/10 of a penny. So why call it millicent?
It looks like millicent could be used to pay for web based sending of anonymous messages, but only if you have an NT server (or use theirs) and only if you browse from windows.
Maybe if I find a millicent type system that works with a Linux server, especially a "non money" one, I might setup a web based mailer that works with it. It would make a nice weekend project. I'm been thinking of revamping the dragoncon.net mailer anyway.
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