-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com> writes:
I think there are two broad models of complaints/problems with remailers:
1. The recipient is angry because they received a message they didn't like. (because it's an advertisement, or it's rude, or it's an image that their parents didn't like ..)
2. A third party is angry because the sender sent some information to the recipient which the third party thinks should not have been sent. (copyright, trademark, defamation, tortious interference with [prospective] contract, etc.)
Your "contract" model (which looks like you really mean it to be a waiver of warranty/damages and/or an indemnification agreement) addresses (1) to the point of overkill, but it doesn't reach (2), because there's no contract with the third party, who is the party who's likely to be filing suit. (Indemnification by the sender might work, if you worded the contract correctly - but then you've got to abandon anonymity, and the value of indemnification from person you don't know whose assets/finances are unknown is pretty low.) <snip>
Does anyone here actually know the requirements for common carrier status? (A web search proved mostly uniformative, except that now I know that Ohio University offers a course in CC Regualtions.) While my intuitive notion of what a CC is does mean that ISP's are not good CC's (ISP's want to not carry every newsgroup, want to not let people have accounts for any old reason, etc), remailers seem like a perfect candidate. For example, you could have a remailer that has one simple rule: they only allow 10 messages a day from people who aren't other anon. remailers. That way, the system isn't rejecting any traffic "unreasonably," and gains some legal protection. If someone form, say, a praticularly profitable religous institution calls up and says "We belive that certain copywritten internal documets were sent through your remailer." You say "Sorry, dude, I just pass the messages along." I imagine that there would be problems keeping messages anonymous ir regards to the feds, as I imagine that there would be some analogy to phone taps, but legal protection from civilians is a step in the right direction, and a few remailers in civilized jurisdictions would make the feds' lives difficult. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMzii4Mkz/YzIV3P5AQFy4gMAqdL2XMwr34JoJspqkXgrUpfv77s4OwWb S+l/AYQxQJD97eGyG9NgqglJ87tiIv9H9zzCdm3wYjA1syycQlMoI+rUQ0t/OMZz mytZNRk3SmT2OBQ4zl2VvFfB6pqLm035 =7Ehu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----