At 04:12 AM 10/2/97 -0600, Racist Remailer wrote:
Also, advertising could be sent to the originator of anonymous remail,
This does seem like a second place that remailer advertising could be "sold." Advertising to the sender side seems like a better idea than recipient advertising, but I'm not sure it would go over very well either. When the crypto vote recently came up in Congress, I suggested putting "advertising" about the vote on outgoing remailer messages. This would have involved promotion of non EFGA web pages. The owners of such web pages, who are pro-crypto, did not care for the association with a remailer. For a recipient side ad, I thought of simply sending out a terms of service message, perhaps replaced in the future by paid advertising. We discussed this, and decided that users would be bothered by getting return email when they send the remailer a message. We considered sending a return message not with each message, but say only once per month, or only once every two weeks. Feedback I got on this was that users would not like the remailer acknowledging them. Obviously we would have to build some database of who sent something when in order to make this work. A database of who has sent a message in the last two weeks is just another chink in the armor waiting to be exploited. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key