-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:10:45 -0800, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
ps, how come mail i send to jpiunix.com is getting bounced, are they down?
Regrettably, it appears jpunix.com is down permanently. I can't fault John at all, and want to thank him for running a robust remailer for as long as he was able. I captured this earlier today: ============================================================================= From: perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.anonymous Subject: Re: Jpunix "unknown"? Date: 4 Jan 1995 06:55:22 -0600 Organization: J. P. and Associates In article <doumakesD1v7EA.C63@netcom.com>, Don Doumakes <doumakes@netcom.com> wrote:
I've gotten several pieces of mail returned from jpunix. Is it down permanently, or is this just a temporary problem?
Here is the test of a message I sent to remailer-operators: The anonymous remailer at jpunix.com is going to shut down permanently shortly after I send this message. I spent my holidays fighting spams, running out of disk space because of spams and people sending HUGE binaries, and running out of swap space. I have come to the ultimate conclusion that the Internet is not mature or developed enough for remailers. The intended purpose has been completely ignored while abuse is growing almost geometrically on a daily basis. I have concluded that running a remailer on the Internet is like giving a bunch of terrorists a nuclear bomb and then telling them "But only use it for good!". There just doesn't seem to be much point in thrashing my disks and computer to aid somebody in net abuse. I hardly ever (never) see any use of the remailer for the purposes it was intended. BTW as I type this, mailgate.mail.aol.com is hammering my port 25 every 30 seconds. The contents of the spam being passed thru my system essentially says: THIS IS A MAIL BOMB!! **** BOOM *** ============================================================================= Alan Westrope <awestrop@nyx.cs.du.edu> __________/|-, <adwestro@ouray.denver.colorado.edu> (_) \|-' 2.6.2 public key: finger / servers PGP 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLwsa7VRRFMq4NZY5AQEC7QP/SsfagBISP7k+0en0MeJpTPD56BNv0xGX Fh80FuzJ/8Ya7Z4ykz8C1zTtXUaKJeIMgGbQkwybYveOGY5eZWgkc62r+FjmW6fh JY2WhI7e0w+NpfjLBktr+deBvy3b9ElXfbiObfftZMZX/yVke7KX7p7hhdK8t7/g vVj+TqEMhGU= =GnaX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----