Yes, those of us who run remailers sometimes run them from university accounts. Such was my case. The university of washington (without knowing it :) supported remailing at one time, through phantom@mead.u.washington.edu. I am not root here (and never will be!), and such access is not needed to set up a remailer. Instead, Hal Finney has written up a few remailer scripts which depend only on your ability to create a .forward file, and have perl available. (oh, also about.. ~1Mb for all of the scripts + PGP + keyring). There were no problems with my remailer and it was well-used. No scripts of incoming or outgoing mail were kept. The remailer lived for a few months last year, which actually isn't bad when you consider it was based on a student account with a nazi-like administration. :) The death-blow was a remailer target complaining to me about someone sending unsolicited mail to them through my remailer. Instead of replying to my account (phantom@mead), they saw that the header had "nobody@mead" on it, and when mail to that address bounced, they sent to postmaster. The mail to the postmaster was very polite and simply asked that the mail cease, either by taking away the remailing ability from the perpetrator or blocking the destination address. Of course, the postmaster didn't know anything about this, and when he looked into it, he was quite suprised. I was able to keep it limping for about another week. I got support from a few cypherpunks around here, people on the list like JDraper, TMay, etc., and from others including Whit Diffie, Neal Koblitz, etc. I might have been able to fight the shutdown, but I saw it as a losing battle. In any case, no, it takes no special abilities to run a remailer; everything is pretty much packaged for ease-of-use. Every administration is going to act differently if/when/how they find out about it. Make your own judgement, I suppose. mt Matt Thomlinson Say no to the Wiretap Chip! University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Internet: phantom@u.washington.edu phone: (206) 548-9804 PGP 2.2 key available via email or finger phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu