From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:18:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Digital postage and remailer abuse
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960113070712.00680b1c@arn.net>
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At 10:47 AM 01/13/96 -0800, Jonathon Blake <grafolog@netcom.com> wrote:
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>On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:
>
>> snailmail; particularly if the remailers were able to issue 'books' of
stamps.
>> It might even be possible to have each remailer issue Estamps (tm) of
>> different 'kinds', much as there are different postage stamp 'themes'.
>
>	I can see it now.  The 1997 Scott Standard Estamp Catalog:  
>	Remailers of the World.  
>
Or perhaps Famous Cypherpunks?

So maybe a bad example, but the analogy is quasi-valid :-)

>> Having different stamps from each remailer would also allow some means of
>> tracking spammers and rip-off artists ("hmmm. an 'Elvis' Estamp. That came
>> from hactic; let's see if they can tell us who they sold this book to.....")
>
>	OTOH, if hactic keeps records of who the stamps are sold to,
>	that sort of defeats the anonymous nature of the remailers.
>

Perhaps a little, but considering *why* Estamps would be used, I think it
would be an acceptable 'hazard'. Of course, it's not any kind of
requirement, simply a means of resolving a *significant* problem. Or not. :-)

Dave


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