-- On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Len Sassaman wrote:

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The user would purchase remailer tokens (digital cash) from a

token vendor

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(the bank). This is an exchange similar to car wash tokens or TicketMaster[tm], where the seller receives "real cash" and the buyer receives a tangible promise of a future service. The tokens could be purchased online using PayPal, credit cards, etc. (Yes, this means the number of paying remailer customers must be large enough to constitute a crowd.)

On 20 Dec 2001, at 8:48, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:

The importance of having a large number of remailer users is made even greater by this system. While it might be easy for a TLA to monitor all network traffic and compile a list of all remailer users, having a bank make that list for them in an easily subpoena-able form saves them some work.

Much though I would love to have some excuse for convertible, real money, for remailers mere antispam costs would suffice, thus a money that anyone could generate by simply investing sufficient CPU cycles. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kh+ZR4fe5x7pOqmyx8mqQif8RUZu32+kJ5BPQ0yi 4gmqiF3vJL6jiPp/0e//TNGut2piKhawv18L/8Keb