Re: Remailers & what they get out of it...

["E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>]

From:	IN%"ravage@ssz.com"  "Jim Choate" 18-MAY-1996 09:43:06.96

>As long as the remailer is run a 'grins & giggles' affair you are right.

	There is the increase in reputation capital in _some_ quarters possible
through running a remailer. (On the other hand, in authoritarian quarters, it
would tend to decrease one's reputation capital...)

>To me the biggest problem with the crypto work right now is that not enough
>professionals are involved. If more remailers and such were initiated as 
>a business there would be legal avenues to explore. Also, in this vain is
>the apparent lack of support for commercial ventures by developers of such
>apps as MixMaster (whose license explicity prohibits commercial use).

	It prohibits commercial use? That's silly. Is it a
holdover from when the idea was to turn Mixmaster into a company?

>And for the record, yes, we expect to charge real $$$ for access. Our
>current plan is $10/month for each account. Money orders prefered. We have
>at this point pondered e-cash methods but it doesn't seem popular enough
>at this juncture.

	How would you be doing this? Only remailing from accounts that have
paid up, or what?
	-Allen