I 'know' that a decent remailer will time-delay forwarding messages so as to throw sand in the gears of traffic analysis. I wonder if it wouldn't help more if the remailer(s) were set up so that people could send 'dummy' messages to them. That is, say I wanted to ensure that traffic analysis on myself were made as difficult as possible. I could Email something to a remailer with an embedded 'flag' or code (ex: blackhole, disposal, trash, etc) telling it to forward the message to the Bitbucket. Alternatively, I could include some other code or flag (ex: rubber, bounce, ricochet, etc) telling it to take the included (dummy) data, scramble it some, and return it some random time later. Alternatively, the remailer could take a so-tagged message, generate some random data of similar size, and send it (along with my address) to another remailer that it knew about, which would generate *different* random data, and sent that back to me. Wouldn't something like this further complicate traffic analysis, or would it just constipate the net? Dave Merriman - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Politics: fr. Latin 'poly' meaning 'many'; 'ticks' small blood-sucking parasites.