-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 5:10 PM 01/06/95, Dr. D.C. Williams wrote: [suggestion that only the first remailer would get payed, with justification for that.]

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.

Yeah, that does seem possible. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that it's really the _last_ remailer in the chain that's taking the most heat, and it would be nice if they got payed. There's also an issue of some remailers refusing to be last in the chain, so they dont' expose themselves so much. So the remailers which _did_ agree to be last in the chain would obviously get used for this purpose, while the others wouldn't, but they wouldn't get any more money for it. They might even get less, since most people probably don't use the same remailer twice in a chain, so the ones agreeing to be last are hardly ever going to be first. That seems undesirable. Ideally, the forces of capitalism would work on the last remailer on the chain, rather then (or in addition to) the first, to increase the number of remailers willing to do this. All this goes triple for mail-to-news remailers, since that poses even more exposure to heat, and it would be nice if ops were conpensated for. - --- [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 iQBFAwUBLw3H8yoZzwIn1bdtAQHFWwGAqDhDUgU4+I4wLsqR8AwHEm09E9lqVjCX IcKjz280k1pK3MLaOMTCueXVUaZCam6u =4Wi5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----