Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:
Anonymous continued:
Efforts to send it through a second remailer also failed, with no notice from the server of any problems being received. Other email sent through the remailer at the same time encountered no difficulties.
Later the same day John Perry wrote:
Due to an FBI investigation that was opened recently naming myself and jpunix as suspects, I have decided that the heat taken by remailer operators due to those individuals that can't control themselves has become unacceptable.
Note that remailer users should admit the possibility of a government agent being among remailer operators. I have very high regards to John Perry personally, but believe me, it does not a lot of effort to subvert a more regular person. It is generally easy to find some "crime" that normally would not be prosecuted and and then bullied into submission. A reasonably risk-averse remailer users should accept that probability and never assume that one or two remailers in a chain is enough for anything serious. As well, I strongly object to remailer operators openly discussing who sent what to whom (as it recently happened). If a remailer operator discovers that a certain user is spamming his service, he could publish a hash (not cryptographically strong) of the offender's email address and not teh address itself. - Igor.