From: IN%"fletch@ain.bls.com" "Mike Fletcher" 22-FEB-1996 03:53:16.20
Who says the code has to run on their machine. Just forward all incoming mail off to another box, and send all the outgoing mail out from the free account. Depending of course on whether it's some sort of shell account or if you POP/SMTP to their box.
I'd guess it's some sort of dialin (possibly via tymnet or some such). In that case, you'd simply have your remailer on your system at home, calling the system up at some (probably randomly determined) time and downloading the incoming mail and uploading whatever outgoing mail that (given latency) you wanted to go out at that point. (Any on-encrypted email, such as their ads, you'd be able to filter out very easily). You could even potentially run it off of a portable computer. For unattended running, the hardware RNG would be best, of course. -Allen