Excerpts from fv: 6-Jan-95 Re: for-pay remailers and F.. "James A. Donald"@netcom (1127*)

On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

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Hmm. Maybe I don't completely understand how this is going to work, but won't _every_ remailer in the chain need to know your FV billing account?

First remailer knows you and your FV billing account. Charges you its own fee and the fee for all for profit remailers in the list. (The envelope states what this fee is going to be)

Second remailer charges first remailer.

Third remailer charges second remailer.

If the postage on the envelope is insufficient to cover all the for profit remailers the message passes through, it gets bounced or dropped.

In principle it could work,

Yes, I think you've probably just identified a *second* way it could work. I agree it's awfully complex, though. I'd prefer my consortium approach, but it's nice to see that multiple models are possible. -- Nathaniel