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Re: for-pay remailers and FV



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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

> . . . a remailer consortium would do best to issue a local banknote
> usable only by themselves and have customers settle with the
> consortium issuer, rather than any member of the consortium itself.
> If the consortium issuer were to use blind sigs, the consortium
> members wouldn't be able to ascertain who paid.
> 
> The mechanism for settlement could be credit cards directly, mailed in
> checks, even FV.  The preferences of the consortium members for issues
> of timeliness of settlement, reversibility, loss sharing, etc. would
> decide the actual choice of settlement mechanism.
> . . .

Gee, this sounds awfully familiar.  Maybe Eric will have more
luck in getting you remailer folks to listen.  I hardly got so
much as a peep when I suggested that a remailers' guild create
or authorize one or more digital stamp issuers.

Damn, I hate being so far ahead of my time.


 S a n d y

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