At 02:50 PM 10/14/96 -0700, Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com> wrote:

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From time to time we've discussed the economics of paying per-message costs for E-mail, and/or systems where advertisers pay users to read their messages. Someone seems to have set up a system like that. It's at <http://www.aristotle.org>. They seem to be using voter registration as an is-a-real-person credential. (Their idea seems to be that they'll charge

Aristotle.org is run by John Aristotle Phillips. If you remember back in the 70s when a student at Princeton designed an atomic bomb as his junior physics project, that was him (he wasn't brilliant; he just needed a really good paper to bring up his low physics grades.) He's since gone into political consulting. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk Imagine if three million people voted for somebody they _knew_, and the politicians had to count them all.