This horse isn't dead yet. The distinction between latency and reordering is if primary importance to the cryptanalysis of a remailer network. To repeat yet again: reordering provides security and latency is a by-product of reordering. I assert that anyone who's given a modicum of thought about how to cryptanalyze a remailer network understands this distinction well. I also assert that those who haven't thought about cryptanalysis don't understand the distinction, even if they do believe in it by authority. One of the oldest maxims in the book is "Don't design ciphers until you've tried to break some." A remailer network is intended to be a cryptographic object, a new kind of cipher. I assert that if you don't understand the distinction between reordering and latency, you've not thought enough about the cryptanalysis of remailers and shouldn't be designing them. Therefore, in the future, from here on out, I will label the promoters of latency as "sellers of snake oil." It's the same fallacy as creating a new cipher by putting lots of complicated operations inside it without understanding where the security comes from. Eric