From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:37:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: BlackNet: Commercial Posts?
Message-ID: <ae3e66b5150210042b54@[205.199.118.202]>
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At 1:05 PM 8/19/96, Ross Wright wrote:
>On Or About 19 Aug 96, 7:03, Hal wrote:
>
>> service, or in fact a network of any sort.  Rather, it is a vendor.
>> It buys and sells information.
>
>My question to the list:
>
>Who benefits from all this publicity and brew-ha-ha?  Who makes all
>the BlackNet money?  Who really cares if it is a Data Haven or just a
>remailer?  I'm just asking.

Well, obviously I do. I receive $1.42 for every posting which mentions
BlackNet, 7% of gross sales for all commercial transactions, and 12.5% plus
a sliding finder's fee for all military and intelligence secrets sold via
BlackNet.

But all true paranoiacs knew this.

--Aldrich Ames

Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software!
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
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