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retiring my remailer..
by John A. Perry 03 Jan '95

03 Jan '95

The anonymous remailer at jpunix.com is going to shut down permanently shortly after I send this message. I spent my holidays fighting spams, running out of disk space because of spams and people sending HUGE binaries, and running out of swap space. I have come to the ultimate conclusion that the Internet is not mature or developed enough for remailers. The intended purpose has been completely ignored while abuse is growing almost geometrically on a daily basis. I have concluded that running a remailer on the Internet is like giving a bunch of terrorists a nuclear bomb and then telling them "But only use it for good!". There just doesn't seem to be much point in thrashing my disks and computer to aid somebody in net abuse. I hardly ever (never) see any use of the remailer for the purposes it was intended. BTW as I type this, mailgate.mail.aol.com is hammering my port 25 every 30 seconds. The contents of the spam being passed thru my system essentially says: THIS IS A MAIL BOMB!! **** BOOM *** See what I mean?? John A. Perry - KG5RG - perry(a)jpunix.com WWW - http://jpunix.com PGP 2.62 key for perry(a)jpunix.com is on the keyservers. PGP-encrypted e-mail welcome! Finger kserver(a)jpunix.com for PGP keyserver help. Finger remailer(a)jpunix.com for remailer help.

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