Re: Handling Abuses of Remailers

> Re: remailer price schedules
>
> My guess on all this is that you could make an awful lot of money at a
> dime a hop for a less-than-10K message.  Sell hops only in packages
> of a hundred, in order to reduce your finance charges.


Geeez, Eric!  I'd think a penny a hop would be a pretty high price...  And
given that most messages go through two hops, then you'd really be giving
your 2 cents worth!

Note that there can be about 50 cypherpunks messages a day -- if each went
through 2 hops at $0.10 / hop, as you proposed, that would be $10 / day in
revenues for the remailers.  Seems like a lot to me.

I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame
wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor...

Fen

I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame
	 wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor...

Not at all.  It would merely prevent them from using those particular
anonymous remailers.  Still a problem, but much less of one.

dean

> Note that there can be about 50 cypherpunks messages a day -- if each went
> through 2 hops at $0.10 / hop, as you proposed, that would be $10 / day in
> revenues for the remailers.  Seems like a lot to me.

Uh... If anon.penet.fi charged $0.10 / message for the 3000 messages a
day it's curently handling that would give me $9,000/month - no problem
upgrading the hardware! ;-)

But...

> I would support the idea if I felt that the system would quiet the flame
> wars, but I think rather it would simply quiet the poor...

*Quiet* the flame wars? I can already hear them scream "and he is even
getting *money* from terrorizing the net!!" ;-)

I think anon.penet.fi will have to remain a for-free, public service...

	Julf