[24842] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailer postage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barnes)
Thu Jan 5 16:17:14 1995
From: db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
To: jpb@gate.net
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 14:21:40 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199501051802.NAA22909@seminole.gate.net> from "jpb@gate.net" at Jan 5, 95 01:02:57 pm
I strongly agree with Tim that one should not look
down at for-profit anonymizing services. This is the
_only_ way I see to establish and maintain reliable
service and avoid spamming and denial of service.
It's also the only way such a service can scale if
it becomes suddenly popular -- if there's no increased
revenue, it's going to be harder to get more h/w and
bandwidth.
Even if one had a heart of gold and purely charitable
instincts, one would eventually come to the conclusion
that such a service operates better if users are
paying for it. And this is even before we address matters
like the benefits of competition.
Doug
