From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:40:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Traffic Jams on the Internet
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

> 	It occurs to me that it would be good if people sent in some
> non-governmental/hierarchial solutions to this problem, such as ones using
> digital cash as "postage" for prioritized mail.

I read an article on various Internet pricing schemes a while ago and one
of the ideas was a pretty clever solution.  Internet services would be
classified according to their bandwidth requirement and need for
interactivity.  The cost per byte of e-mail might be very cheap whereas the
cost per byte for videoconferencing might be more.  There's no real way to
rip off this scheme, because if you try to send an e-mail and classify it
as "high priority" it is more expensive.

- --Mark

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