Vincent.Cate@FURMINT.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU wrote: Using "nobody" as a remailer is pretty interesting ;) the only problem being you have to be root or be allowed to choose your own username.
Imagine remailers also had addresses like "nobody@vox.hacktic.nl", and "nobody@jpunix.com". Now if someone doing an internet wire-tap sees mail to "nobody@furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu" it is hard for him to tell if this means: a) It will just end up in /dev/null like it does on 99% of the machines b) furmint is another remailer c) someone on furmint gets mail as "nobody"
I don't understand: why can't the somebody do a telnet to port 25 and "vrfy nobody" to see if it points to /dev/null? Or find out if mail is piped to a script?
So it would be nice if sites with remailers would set the "nobody" alias to point to their remailer to start this convention. Assuming
Again, a pretty good suggestion, but I don't think most remailer operators can do this even if they wanted to. I know I couldn't have with remailers I've run in the past. -- Karl L. Barrus: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu 2.3: 5AD633; D1 59 9D 48 72 E9 19 D5 3D F3 93 7E 81 B5 CC 32 2.6: 088C8F21; 97 73 9E 8B 98 3E DD B5 E8 97 64 7E 20 95 60 D9 "One man's mnemonic is another man's cryptography" - K. Cooper