From: storm@marlin.ssnet.com (Don Melvin)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 95 13:24:19 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailer Abuse
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I'm joining this a bit late, but if you take the concept
proposed earlier about sticking a remailer stamp on each
encrypted envelope and that stamp being removed by the
remailer, each remailer will get paid for handling the
message.

The anonymity (assuming an FV-type postage sale) can be
restored by having one or more trusted postage exchanges.

You buy a hundred stamps, send them to the exchange, and
get back ninety-nine stamps from a pool.  You now have a
valid remailer stamp that does not have a link to you.

Of course, to keep the purchasers honest, the stamps should
probably be send from the purchase point (FV in this example).
And there would also have to be a fast clearing house so
stamps can't be reused/copies.
- --
America - a country so rich and so strong we can reward the lazy 
          and punish the productive and still survive (so far)

Don Melvin                  storm@ssnet.com                finger for PGP key.

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