-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Someone (not me) asked about remailer tearline conventions to eliminate automatic sigs: Though this subject came up some months ago, I never noticed any final decision. Is there now an accepted tearline convention for the generic cypherpunks remailers? The mail handler here and at most of my other accounts automagically adds the host address and/or my address to all outgoing mail, which is...well..._counterproductive_ when sending mail to a remailer. The extropia remailer by accepting encrypted messages avoids this problem, but most of the other remailers seem to have no provisions for excluding extraneous text and address footers. Was there ever a "8<----(cut here)" arrangement agreed upon and incorporated into the remailers? I'm the one who brought this up "months ago" and the short answer to your question is "no." One remailer Hall Remailer <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> added a "cut line" of --ignore-- [no indentation in actual use]. I tested this when Hall first announced it and it seems to work. You would be advised to test it yourself before relying on it. Unfortunately the Hall Remailer is one of the remailers that does not support encryption. AFIK, this "cut line" code was never propagated to any other Cypherpunks remailers. At the time I brought this up, the attitude of most remailer operators (Chael Hall and Miron Cuperman notably excepted) was that anyone who couldn't figure out how and remember to turn off their auto sig didn't deserve any privacy. I recommend that you always use the wimsey (extropia) remailer as the first (or only) leg of a remailer chain. It is also the only Cypherpunks remailer outside the USA (it's in Canada) which will make tracing msgs a little more difficult for USA authorities. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLU5FJt4nNf3ah8DHAQECYQP/f2LDs7Tq1PfrH4PQBOR0Iu1XIrCDztZB dVapPFSjfF2Y20ljWqHsMK7xjUpfLpaXluFogav9DpGgey/zrO48MJJf8gFBGsJA 7gsOUl3Yc3VDPWvWI18zN4MgYeeEfRoTXIToWSeiadJmiEMq5m0hqs1bjZwOmmSr rewqGMxMUeI= =U43w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca