From: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net> That's not a very good approach: a human has to add a new remailer into the "net" by adding it to the systems polled. Not only is the human intervention a Bad Thing, but having a central registry of remailers is bad infrastructure. A more "web-of-trust"-like mechanism is desirable. In terms of autopinging, certainly human intervention is not desirable. This begs one question though, namely, "how does one gain trust in a remailer?". Certainly likelihood of service can be automated, but other forms of trust cannot. Human intervention is necessary each time someone begins to trust a remailer. That intervention can be for one's own use or for someone else's, but automatically trusting new remailers is Not Good. The question then becomes "what is the structure of human intervention required to change the trust in a remailer?". Use of agency will be desirable, certainly. These questions of human relations need to be examined before technical means of communication can be profitably pinned down. Eric