From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:57:57 -0800 (PST)
To: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
Subject: Re: Remailer Pricing
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> At 6:02 PM 11/14/1996, Mullen Patrick wrote:
> And, the long delays in sending messages through the remailers make it
> hard for people to get up and running because it takes hours to determine
> whether it worked, if it worked at all.
> A good pricing strategy for remailers would be to charge, say, $1 for
> instant delivery, $.50 for 30 minute delivery, etc.  To generate
> interest, 4 hour delays could be imposed for free remailing, if the
> resources are available.

     There is a good reason for the delays. 

     As far as I understand it, it deals with traffic analysis.

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com