On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:57:23AM -0000, Anonymous wrote:
Supposing you and others were willing to pay Nomen a modest sum for this service, how could you do so using Paypal or Amazon, and allow him to retain his anonymity?
Ah, but I never said I'd pay for it -- I said it might be a better use Nomen's time than pointless flaming or somesuch. But going with your hypothetical, Nomen could find a trusted party with sufficient reputation capital and allow them to run the Amazon service for him/her in exchange for a small fee. Amazon requires a credit card number, billing address, and checking account number for a "merchant account." Heck, I'd do it, for a sufficient expected fee, assuming legal content, and I suspect other folks would too, for different definitions of "expected fee." How I would give a check or money order to Nomen is another problem. Perhaps he/she would like a copy of something I could download for a fee, encrypt, and send via a remailer or place in a Usenet newsgroup? Etc. I never claimed that Amazon/Paypal are sufficient for all cypherpunkly purposes; that is trivially untrue. But they may be sufficient for some tasks. -Declan