In that case one of us (who owns a machine directly plugged into the net) should set up an anon server that doesn't check for user/host names, or better yet, provide a bouncing off point for anonymous telnet... Say something like you telnet to port 666 on toad.com, and then you're given an anonymous temporary id. At that point, you are prompted with a menu for what to do... telnet to another site, ftp into another side, call an IRC server from somewhere, etc. All the anon server would have to do is bounce packets... I think this idea came up before... an anon packet forwarding service of sorts...
If a user goes through several of these, s/he is granted pretty decent anonimity... Perhaps another play on this would work with encrypted packets? Where each user who dials into one of these packet bouncers talks to it via a PGP like RSA and key-exchange system.
There's something similar to this in ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/networks it's called inet, or something similar. basically you set it up to run on a site, and dependig on which port of said site you telnet to, it bounces packets to somewhere else. so, at ports 2000-2010 on toad.com, you have 11 different anon-irc servers, 2011 has somewthing else, and so on. I'm sure that someone could hack up the source code to inclde anything you damn well want. * * Mikolaj J. Habryn dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au * "Life begins at '040." PGP Public key available by finger * "Spaghetti code means job security!"