[49326] in Cypherpunks
Re: Likely application for high-bandwidth proxies (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Tue Feb 6 02:50:27 1996
From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 02:47:54 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960206065604.5857H-100000@usr6.primenet.com> from "attila" at Feb 6, 96 07:07:00 am
attila writes:
> on a little more serious point; the use of multiple high
> bandwidth proxies is fast becoming essential
[...]
> The only clinker is
> the big sites are startig to require registration with legal warnings
> --next of course is payment and they want a credit card --not a check
> or cybercash --a credit card for open debit.
This makes it harder for transitory proxies, but not for fairly permanent
ones, I suspect. An outfit like C2 could presumably register with a corporate
credit card. Its proxy then carries connections paid-as-you-go with e$, or
paid in chunks in advance with a check.
-Lewis "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage" -Smashing P'kins
