Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Len Sassaman wrote:
>
> > The user would purchase remailer tokens (digital cash) from a 
token vendor
> > (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.

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