-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Joe Thomas has suggested that a group of penet-style anonymous servers be set up to act as "front ends" for the Cypherpunk remailers. This seems like a good idea (provided that the technical problems can be overcome), but I'd like to propose an addition. Having more than one of the penet-style front ends active at once will only provide more targets for (anonymous) net.fascists. I suggest that instead of having a handful of front ends operating, have only one front end actually operational at a time. Other servers would be on standby, and would constantly update their database with the active server. That way, the moment someone trashed the active server, another could be activated. This way the service would be interupted only briefly. Since it has thus far taken some time for anonymous servers to be brought down, this should allow the front ends to keep up. If someone out there trashes a new front end every month, we would only need to find a new server every month, with a "cushion" of servers waiting on standby. Now, as I understood the suggestion from Joe Thomas, the Cypherpunk remailers behind the front ends would only be "visible" to the people involved in running the service. This would certainly make the remailers more secure, since the net.fascists would not know who to terrorize to can the remailers. Although I certainly may be misunderstanding something, I don't really see why the users of the service would ever need to see a message about "if mail to here bounces, try there." Shouldn't the loss of a remailer be dealt with entirely "behind the scenes," by the service administrators? If I've said something really stupid or obvious here, please bear with me. The whole idea of anonymity only became of interest to me a few days ago. (It's amazing how badly some people react to fascist slime telling them they can't do something, even if they never thought of doing it before.) Kenneth G. Hagler ********************************************************************** * Internet: cvadsaav@csupomona.edu * My insurance company * * Phone: (909) 865-7751 * is Beretta U.S.A. * * PGP 2.2 key available on request * * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * ...study of the military arts will make one who is naturally * * clever more so and one who is born somewhat dull rather less * * so. * * --Daidoji Yuzan Shigesuke, _Budo Shoshinshu_ * ********************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBK7PzpiipatcRAyu9AQGqfAQAlO2qB1QkrUg4oRA03nQw3qhPnIz8GpQt jFBKGdlXFYgVRbVQsG2ZvkUFwSZe9UOnFn8YXsCimRKA/9V7L0tpIeDRdAJvApvs Wfg0AsJ0toV+O8M1zw0Rfni1zy/HBvfJbc9rAJoRKR+3JaeFoqNI3KZ68jqa5Lk4 Lm7EYHHQXT0= =aB5h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----