To: <cypherpunks@toad.com> Cc: Subject: Re: It is good that anon.penet.fi has been closed! Message not delivered to recipients below. Press F1 for help with VNM error codes. VNM3043: BANYAN SERVER@MAG26@2DMAW NEW RIVER VNM3043 -- MAILBOX IS FULL The message cannot be delivered because the recipient's mailbox contains the maximum number of messages, as set by the system administrator. The recipient must delete some messages before any other messages can be delivered. The maximum message limit for a user's mailbox is 10,000. The default message limit is 1000 messages. Administrators can set message limits using the Mailbox Settings function available in the Manage User menu (MUSER). When a user's mailbox reaches the limit, the user must delete some of the messages before the mailbox can accept any more incoming messages. UNDEFINED-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Yes, subject says it all. anon.penet.fi was a whole lot worse than cypherpunks remailers. It provided clueless users with no real security, because it stored return addresses and did not use chaining and encryption.
It also provided anonymity to many people who needed it. I think that many people who need anonymity will probably just learn faking mail and news headers. Many people just don't want to deal with cpunk remailers. OTOH, I agree that this might actually force many people with Penet addresses to learn about more secure remailers. In this way, the closing of anon.penet.fi could be looked upon as a Good Thing. However, as long as there is no easy way for Windoze and Mac users to use secure remailers, users will sooner resort to fake-mailing then learning how to use cpunk remailers. People that need a pseudonym address to use on various support groups can get them from other, equally insecure, remailers. - -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMinwTizIPc7jvyFpAQFpGAf/ZGEXRU7MuROtatlHoAIdaJfIiwig1oDr fwlNjRe7f1ze8dwUuh74nWFt/ofPtjwSUtpCa1xDgTptPPhzr1I6beOdjwONlUzf MVif+wnzyIp27V/DCjebAMxQc2avmYKM6mwcOKfzFwG0cfvf/walJrjmADR9K0oe EXqi7mJzY1rI08Dsw8aHXNj8maDy9pRTSz9O9e0qZTdFlQtFyVNM6PSfAnKR9e1L ebQ5Yx4qNkgkfhDZgacKNv2inkyuD1LsyQneiCIZ0obhhRL7ORU63wGgYlvqc3gx Ux8sK2mMo6kr2dvA07nRyLzl3w9vm6efrFJeZC94fjdBYxluFg6/ag== =+Qm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----