-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Jim Miller writes :
It might be worthwhile to create a remailer package for a remailer that only sends to other known remailers. People hesitant about running a full service remailer may still be willing to run a behind-the-front-lines remailer.
This illustrates my point precisely. Look at the messages on this thread over the past few days; questions about 'common carrier' status, legal questions, etc reveal that there is, in practice, more to running a 'full service remailer' than just setting up the software. Running multiple overseas remailers may complicate investigations and legal action *for now*, but I can't help feeling that this is only a temporary fix. [My opinion, ignore at will..] Bill Stewart raised some concerns about whether it is possible to forge return addresses; I am certainly not an expert, but I wonder whether some inspired cypherpunk can come up with a way around the technical problems involved. [Sips coffee, raises eyebrow] If 'they' can't find the remailer operator (much less the anonymous poster), then all these questions of culpability and risk are moot. - -- ........................................................................ Philippe D. Nave, Jr. | Strong Crypto: Don't leave $HOME without it! pdn@dwroll.dw.att.com | Denver, Colorado USA | PGP public key: by arrangement. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLbWBqgvlW1K2YdE1AQFZbQQA1MR14wbBcK2BHRe45tT9x48MFpVpPK+1 wxOlpWiYtiQgV2m/rLkYzlrSCBaTjIU5Rj1UpOK1vpwOBIJmrQH5aKEQIPmc1Quw nw7xieKsZxe/7o6PsmZoOvIg5N+niOyRgTSyXsuQI/ycSNu0tsnAjL03B2UXkkXZ bnCXfQMwInE= =SAu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----