[87366] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailers and ecash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex de Joode)
Mon Sep 29 14:28:15 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:43:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Alex de Joode <usura@sabotage.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@ssz.com
Reply-To: Alex de Joode <usura@sabotage.org>
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: Then Mr. Cantsin seemed to go back to the all you need are some spare parts
: theory of remailer operation. Enormous profits of $200 per month, or even
: $5,000 per year. Well, Cracker handles close to 25% of worldwide remailer
: traffic of it's kind[1]. And it's not much. I would say this is due
: mainly to the user interface. Making remailers more difficult to use by
: adding Ecash is not going to increase traffic significantly.
Basicly most of those 3400 message cracker handles daily are cover trafic,
a big chunk of the rest is from people "playing" around with the remailer,
then there are those few that needs some form of anonimity so they can inform
a mailinglist/postmaster/complaints department, and then maybe once a week
or so there is that message that would be paid for if remailers were for pay.
So in short, if remailers were to be paid for, traffic would halt.
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