Re: Digital postage and remailer abuse

[Jonathon Blake <grafolog@netcom.com>]

	David:
On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:

> snailmail; particularly if the remailers were able to issue 'books' of stamps.
> It might even be possible to have each remailer issue Estamps (tm) of
> different 'kinds', much as there are different postage stamp 'themes'.

	I can see it now.  The 1997 Scott Standard Estamp Catalog:  
	Remailers of the World.  

> Having different stamps from each remailer would also allow some means of
> tracking spammers and rip-off artists ("hmmm. an 'Elvis' Estamp. That came
> from hactic; let's see if they can tell us who they sold this book to.....")

	OTOH, if hactic keeps records of who the stamps are sold to,
	that sort of defeats the anonymous nature of the remailers.

        xan

        jonathon
        grafolog@netcom.com




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