From: droelke@rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke)
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 06:34:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
Message-ID: <9605211627.AA04637@spirit.aud.alcatel.com>
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tcmay@mail.got.net wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 

Wouldn't the "income" from other cover generators help cover the cost
of a remailer running its own cover generator?

Also - remailers could possibly give postage free service to 
traffic for other remailers.... i.e. only the last node (who 
has the most exposure anyways) would require payment.

Dan
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Dan Oelke                                  Alcatel Network Systems
droelke@aud.alcatel.com                             Richardson, TX