on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:33PM -0700, Steve Schear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 06:30 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, CDR Anonymizer wrote: > >http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/international/03LAUN.html > > > >lo-tech, trust-based, stable and fully functional since antiquity. I like > >it :-) > > You'll notice the cost of money transfers using this private system are > well below international bank wires. If governments want to > reduce/eliminate this "illicit" competition they should fully underwrite > the cost of international wires below a certain threshold (say $10,000).
For some, cost of transfer is a secondary consideration to secrecy, and possibly sufficient to keep a significant underground network active. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
