Www.Iname.com is yet another free email site. Its business model is to offer free email forwarding from basic accounts (paid for by advertising attached to the bottom of the mail), with fancier-looking accounts and POP mailboxes for extra money. They have very explicit anti-spam policies, but I'm not sure if they really hunt down spammers, or if they just respond to complaints by shutting off accounts and keeping the $0 or $15. The policies would be no problem for a subscription-only exit remailer, presumably no problem for a entry-only or middleman remailer, and appear to ban non-subscription-based exit remailers. They may or may not have a problem with the type of remailer that sends a non-registered user a note saying "You've got anonymous mail; send this cookie if you want to receive it"; my guess is they probably drop free accounts after one complaint. The free accounts look like username@iname.com, or a few other lame domain names like cyberdude.com; one of them is "earthling.net", and I suspect the spammer who sent me mail from one of those accounts was trying to pretend to be from earthlink.net ; I've probably blocked both of them by now. You can only have one free account per destination address. The advertising attached to the bottom of the mail messages shouldn't be a problem for PGP-only remailers, assuming they use some tolerable format and don't try to package your mail in some MIME or HTML wrappers. I can't tell, because they say they won't start attaching ads until the extra-price-option ad-remover software is available RSN. The non-free accounts cost $15/year (first 60 days free) for wider collection of domain names (including mail.com, which is usable, and some pure spam-bait names including seductive.com and credit4u.com.) POP3 mailboxes cost $24/year. Their security is really spotty - they use SSL for things related to your bill, but not for passwords, at least for free accounts.... It's easy to set up an account that forwards mail to some third party; if you want to control the thing, you have to point it to yourself first, have it send you the password and confirmation, then go log in to the member page and change your mail forwarding destination. So it's unfortunately easy to spam the innocent with an account at innocent.com (they don't have guilty.com, though :-) I've set up remailer1@disposable.com to point to winsock@rigel.cyberpass.net , which is a PGP-only remailer. It'll expire in 60 days, unless someone wants to spend money, but that's why it's remailer1@disposable.com.... It's got one of the usual passwords. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)