Refreshing deals with the long-term problem, but not with the short-term one. Maybe I need to settle for a higher level of mail loss than I'm comfortable with, but precisely because I'm not comfortable with it, I do remain interested in alternatives.
The alternative is constant monitoring, though of course this risks traffic analysis. If you ping yourself daily, using some random-path random-delay chain of encrypted remailers, then you can tell if your nym still works. To reduce traffic analysis, the remailer system needs lots of remailers and lots of cover traffic, and you need to use the remailers a lot so your mail to them doesn't look regularly scheduled. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation