wmono@Direct.CA wrote to All: w> My appologies in advance to the list for this noise. Dear Anonymous, w> if there is another way to contact you, please let it be known so that w> this need not involve the 1500 others on the list. Noise? Are you on drugs? This is one of the relatively few _on-topic_ threads on this damned list these days! If 1500 other folks can be made to give a try to the Jenaer Remailer then this thread has served a very useful and salutary purpose.
4: Account is automatically established and should work immediately.
w> As soon as the mail arrives, that is correct. If it was lost by using w> a non-operational remailer, or by sending a misformatted mail, then it w> will not. I believe this was the problem; several of the remailers were choking right when I was doing this experiment. Indeed, I had to post my reply to you here FOUR times through otherwise reliable remailers before it ever showed up. w> It may be lag, it may not be. I recommend that you create a test nym, w> with minimal anonymity (no remailers, send everything directly to w> jena) and, after waiting several hours to ensure that the key was w> added, send a mail from your nym to your own account. If you get no w> mail after several hours, something is wrong. This is mechanically a sound suggestion, but I believe that it is a primary security measure to avoid any direct contact with fresh remailer, even using a waste account.
w> - Never request a delivery to your real Email address.
So here's what I really want to know: When/if the new account is up and running, how _does_ one discreetly retrieve his mail? I don't see how, other than to have it sent to alt.anonymous.messages via a mail2news netmail address such as alt.anonymous.messages@news.demon.co.uk and then pick through the mess there until some cyphertext message responds to his right key.
From a security standpoint, to say nothing of the netmail load, I should
w> That's exactly right. We need better message pools. Actually, what w> is needed is a email message pool, because of the lag and uncertainly w> of Usenet. But that's a project for another day. prefer not to use an e-mail pool, but the daunting load of spam and clueless messages in a.a.m is a nuisance, and you are surely right about the vagaries of Usenet connectivity. My first thought was to have them sent to a non-autopinging *.test ng via a well-tested parsing mail2news gate, but some autopingers ping ALL *.test traffic passing through a site. If these ping messages didn't get automatically bitbucketed at the remailer site, this could be a problem for the operator. Anyway, let's see what happens with today's tests...