[103478] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks defeat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Mon Sep 28 01:10:52 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:42:48 -0700
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980928002239.03be06bc@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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At 08:43 PM 9/27/98 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
> > IBM is proposing that anyone, or many people, will be
> > free to act as issuers of promises to pay in their
> > proposed microcash system. =20
At 12:22 AM 9/28/98 -0400, Robert A. Costner wrote:
> I don't think you gave a URL for the IBM system.=20
http://www.hrl.il.ibm.com/mpay=20
> Since you got me interested, I went and looked at the
> "MilliCent" branded product from Digital/Compaq.
>
> http://www.millicent.digital.com/
>
> Millicent is currently free in that scrip is not cash. I
> have to laugh in that MilliCent has a granularity of 1/10
> of a penny. So why call it millicent?
>
> It looks like millicent could be used to pay for web based
> sending of anonymous messages, but only if you have an NT
> server (or use theirs) and only if you browse from windows.
>
> Maybe if I find a millicent type system that works with a
> Linux server, especially a "non money" one, I might setup a
> web based mailer that works with it. It would make a nice
> weekend project. I'm been thinking of revamping the
> dragoncon.net mailer anyway.
What we really need is an open standard with very fine
potential granularity and the intermediary capabilities of
Microsoft.
Such a project is quite large.=20
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