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Why? Why wouldn't the FV remailers use settlements? At the end of the month, everyone settles accounts in re who gets what fraction of what. No logs are needed other than counters.
Oh, you're suggesting that I'd only actually pay the first remailer on my chain, and at the end of the month he'd pay some of the money I (and others) paid him to all of the other remailers his transacted with over the month?
Way too complicated . . . Why not establish a system where the only the first remailer is paid and all subsequent remailers agree to accept traffic from other remailers without compensation? Assuming that first remailer use is or would be somewhat distributed, the net from each remailer would approach the same figure reached by endlessly confusing cross-payments (A pays B, C, and D, B pays A, C, and D, etc.). Only non-remailed access would be subject to a fee. Operators with the best net. reputations and those whose remailers are especially full featured or prompt will likely receive more use as "entry" remailers; this is good capitalism which should not only increase their number but improve the state of remailers in general. If someone wants to establish a remailer that will join the existing mesh of remailers, it will have to accept messages from others gratis if it wants such access to the rest of them. Its compensation would be derived from initial traffic. Maybe this would also encourage operators to beat the bushes for traffic, which would also be a Good Thing. =D.C. Williams <dcwill@ee.unr.edu> - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLw3BayoZzwIn1bdtAQECegGAjSdkX8YYygLJkk1K/Sr6A84QpdNOXbUq uuWxqbSg+6T3Tac+GKdxdNw2SqdExIrV =z/ms -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----