Re: [Asrg] no e-postage

[John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>]

>> 5 billion transactions per day doesn't impress me as proof positive
>> of anything, particularly world-wide.
>> 
>> Obviously if we can deliver that many emails per day THEN WE CLEARLY
>> CAN HANDLE THAT MANY TRANSACTIONS PER DAY! Nicht wahr?
>
>The fact we perform 5 billion transactions with no charge mechanism in an
>entirely decentralized fashion does not provide an existence proof for
>being able to resolve 5 billion charge transactions. ...

Wow, who'd have thought that Phill would write a message and I'd agree
with every word.

Since what Barry seems to mean by e-postage is what other people call
rate limiting and perhaps usage based charging, I wouldn't be averse
to some suggestions about how we might do the former.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com

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