The Crisis with Remailers

Timothy C. May tcmay at got.net
Tue May 21 04:39:20 PDT 1996


At 5:25 AM 5/21/96, Lance Cottrell wrote:

>An interesting problem with anonymous postage is that it is likely to kill
>cover traffic generators.
>

I doubt it. It's easy enough for remailers to, for example, pass out free
tokens to other remailer operators.

(Jukebox and other coin-op concessions often pass out tokens (slugs, or
marked coins) to storeowners and bartenders to use to stimulate the
market.)

--Tim

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