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Re: e$: $MTP? (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Jul 4 19:09:28 1997

In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970704154536.1436B-100000@ece>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:22:00 -0700
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>

At 3:45 PM -0400 7/4/97, Ryan Anderson wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:45:24 -0400 (edt)
>From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
>To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
>Subject: Re: e$: $MTP?
>
>> Frankly, I see no other solution to this problem in the long run except for
>> postage, which means it's probably time to start figuring out, in earnest,
>> how to make it all work. Whoever becomes the lowest cost producer of this
>> kind of software stands to make a whole *bunch* of money.
>
>We still need to work out how to fit mailing lists fit into this without
>eliminating them entirely. Chargebacks to the subscribers?  If this list
>will work in a proposed plan, I think all the others probably would as
>well.. :-)

If the email program (client or $MTP) creates/maintains a 'known party'
list which isn't expected to include postage this solves the mailing list
problem.

--Steve


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