"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com> writes:
I know there has been much talk on how to limit the use of remailers by spamers. I wonder if this is the correct approach to take on this.
Spam could provide the perfect "cover" for anonymous messages. If you have a SPAM mailer pumping out 500,000 messages a day one could hide 10-20,000 anonymous messages without anyone ever noticing.
I just don't see how SPAM is ever going to be stoped, too much $$$ involved. I do think that we can take advantage of the SPAM. Using $$$ from the spamers we could set up a world wide remailer network. In addition to this the volume of spam going through these remailers would provide the perfect cover for anonymous messages. I think if properly set-up it would make traffic analysis next to impossible.
Also by working with the spamers we could modify some of their behaviors. An example would be on certian remailers would allow spam. Other remailers would be "off-limits" to the spamers though we would syphon off a % of the traffic from the spam remailer and run them through the non-spam remailers to be used as cover for the non-spam messages. We would also put non-spam messages through the spam remailers.
With this approach I can see us having 1,000's of remailers rather than the 10 or 20 that are currently running now.
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