At 10:10 04/08/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:

At 2:06 AM -0400 8/4/96, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:

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As long as they are doing any kind of usage-based charging, that actual act of charging will continue to cost considerably more than the data transmission.

Ah. So, why settle the transactions for digital cash and skip all that overhead? Yet another application for micromoney.

True, though even better would be simply to charge you a flat rate. If billing is that expensive, why bother? What happened to the proposals asking for flat-rate pricing before the FCC? Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger amehta@cerfnet.com for public key