From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:00:15 -0800 (PST)
To: sandfort@crl.com (Sandy Sandfort)
Subject: Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list
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Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> > (By the way, if you don't like moderation, you would hate Eric Hughes'
> > favored solution.)
> > What was that?
> 
> Eric, would like to require a deposit ($20 was the example he
> gave) from subscriber/posters.  Non-subscribers would not be 
> allowed to post.  Subscribers who voluntarily left the list, 
> would get their deposit back.  Subscribers who flamed twice 
> (every dog gets one bite) would be kicked off the list and their 
> deposit would be forfeited (or perhaps turned over to the flame 
> victim).

Obviously, you will not be able to effectively collect from non-posters,
since anyone would be able to resell subscriptions. 

Also, anyone can create a usenet newsgroups like alt.cypherpunks,
or cypherpunks.general, which would be free.

Lots of competing cypherpunks mailing lists would spring up.

You would make some money out of it (like maybe $700 or so), but would
waste so much time that it would not be worth the trouble.

	- Igor.