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Re: Remailers and ecash (fwd)
At 07:46 AM 9/29/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>I'm wondering about your co-location machine, from your comments above it
>must be sitting in a field since you don't pay rent (or was that your way of
>saying somebody else pays the rent for you?). Is this so? Since so many of
>your utilities and physical plant are donated I have to question the
>accuracy and utility of your figures as well as the applicability of those
>figures to a true commercial enterprise.
Cracker is a colocated machine. I've said this before. The connectivity
charges includes space, electricity, air conditioning, back up power,
network management, bandwidth, and so forth. For connectivity pricing, I
took the cost of a rack and prorated it for one machine. Cracker is run by
Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA). EFGA is a non-profit Georgia
corporation. No, I never said we were a commercial enterprise. I merely
outlined what the equivalent cost to a commercial enterprise would be. In
Cracker's case, that is $50K per year based on prorated prices, not the
full charges.
Of course I left out our donated legal time we have. When used, that is a
chunk of money. $50K per year would not begin to cover the costs of
operation for a standalone commercial remailer operation. It does
represent what Cracker currently is using, including current donated
resources.
To run Cracker as a standalone commercial enterprise would take a lot of
ecash, and I don't think it would be feasible at this point in time. For
an existing internet business, adding a remailer may be very inexpensive, a
cost of practically zero, except for the complaints.
-- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746
Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:[email protected]
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