Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 11:48:18 -0800 From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) - Digital Postage. This remains my favorite. There's a _need_ for untraceable payments (else why use a remailer?). I've written about this extensively, as have others. If remailers offered robust (see above point about crufty, flaky, hobby remailers) services that they operated as _businesses_, with reasonable attention to reliability, interconnectivity to other remailers, overall robustness, and carefully articulated policies about logging, privacy, etc., then MM or something similar could have a real value. But there's a conflict here. You'd like to be able to use the same postage on multiple remailers. But if the remailers know each other well enough to agree on a common currency, then they know each other well enough to remove the reason for using multiple remailers.