At 07:45 AM 12/2/97 -0600, TruthMonger wrote:
So what's the problem? Has everyone forgotten how to use their delete key? Does nobody have anything better to do with their time and resources than to waste them being offended by people who are trying to offend them?
Well TruthMonger (if that is your real name,) I think you are missing the point. For purposes of the discussion, no one cares about the content of the messages, who or why they are being sent, nor is anyone bothered by anything concerning the message itself. What's being discussed is scarce resources of remailer operators. It's much like spam. It's a very shortsighted view when a user says "why can't you just hit the delete button?" This is an incorrect answer for a user who received one piece of spam, but whose small ISP, being the relay, lost all mail services for two days. Most remailers are operated with donated time and resources. Problems with the remailer, especially artificially generated ones, are just simply not desired. Perhaps it is just me, but if my phone rings because of some message on the Cracker remailer, then I don't care for it happening and I get offended. When last month a prosecutor for the Attorney General's office called me about a packet of material he had received on Cracker, I didn't care for the call. It interrupted a phone call I was having with the communications director of his ex-boss who is now running for Governor. Clearly, it cuts into time I have to do other things. When a police detective calls, not only do I have to explain about remailers and answer his questions, but I have to spend time making him prove he's a policeman before I tell him I can't tell him anything. This can take two or more phone calls and waste even more of my time. So why am I getting these phone calls and email messages? What is needed to make them stop? I don't even run a remailer! -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key