Re: remailer price schedules
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.
Geeez, Eric! I'd think a penny a hop would be a pretty high price... And given that most messages go through two hops, then you'd really be giving your 2 cents worth! Note that there can be about 50 cypherpunks messages a day -- if each went through 2 hops at $0.10 / hop, as you proposed, that would be $10 / day in revenues for the remailers. Seems like a lot to me. I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor... Fen
Note that there can be about 50 cypherpunks messages a day -- if each went through 2 hops at $0.10 / hop, as you proposed, that would be $10 / day in revenues for the remailers. Seems like a lot to me.
Uh... If anon.penet.fi charged $0.10 / message for the 3000 messages a day it's curently handling that would give me $9,000/month - no problem upgrading the hardware! ;-) But...
I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor...
*Quiet* the flame wars? I can already hear them scream "and he is even getting *money* from terrorizing the net!!" ;-) I think anon.penet.fi will have to remain a for-free, public service... Julf
I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor... Not at all. It would merely prevent them from using those particular anonymous remailers. Still a problem, but much less of one. dean
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