Mark M. wrote:
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Yes, subject says it all. anon.penet.fi was a whole lot worse than cypherpunks remailers. It provided clueless users with no real security,
It also provided anonymity to many people who needed it. I think that many people who need anonymity will probably just learn faking mail and news headers. Many people just don't want to deal with cpunk remailers. OTOH, I agree that this might actually force many people with Penet addresses to learn about more secure remailers. In this way, the closing of anon.penet.fi could be looked upon as a Good Thing. However, as long as there is no easy way for Windoze and Mac users to use secure remailers, users will sooner resort to fake-mailing then learning how to use cpunk remailers. People that need a pseudonym address to use on various support groups can get them from other, equally insecure, remailers.
I believe that Private Idaho is a cypherpunks remailer client for Windows. - Igor.