Re: remailer price schedules Tim writes:
I don't know. That's for the market to decide. This is not a glib answer.
While it is not glib, it is also not very useful for planning. As a general rule of thumb, market minima are set by costs, and market maxima are sent by alternatives. Alternatives in this case are alternate transport means, such as fax and snail mail, alternate carriers undertaken pseudonymously, e.g. attmail with a fake id, or free experimental services subsidized by academia and which don't work quite right. Costs are easier to calculate. Cost of a net connection, hardware, staff (i.e. your own) time, and financial transactions (i.e. Visa fees). Make a reasonable assumption that each message takes a certain amount of time to be processed on a certain class of machine (or measure it!), call some vendors (i.e. alternet). My guess on all this is that you could make an awful lot of money at a dime a hop for a less-than-10K message. Sell hops only in packages of a hundred, in order to reduce your finance charges. Eric