At 8:47 1/13/96, Alan Bostick wrote:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how using digital postage with remailers would work. I was assuming that the postage stamp would be included *inside* the encrypted envelope, that what the remailer would do on receipt of mail would be: (a) decrypt the envelope; (b) validate the postage stamp; and (if the stamp is valid) (c) forward the message according to the now-decryped instructions.

Using this model, if the perpetrator doesn't include a postage stamp, then the message is ignored. If the perp includes a stamp, the first horny net geek's message is relayed but subsequent ones get bounced for invalid postage.

You are right. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.