-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Sam Quigley wrote:
It occurs to me that, with the invention of the winsock remailers, we have the potential to establish a very widespread and distributed network of part-time remailers. Specifically, it seems like there are a lot of users who are only connected to the internet for short periods (PPP/SLIP) or who only have full control over their machines for short periods. These computers could not normally be used to run remailers as mail would bounce when the computer/remailer software is down.
If there were some sort of central registry where winsock (or other non-permanent) remailers could announce their ability/inability to bounce mail, email could be forwarded through these temporary remailers on a dynamic basis.
Rather than using a central registry, this could be accomplished by using plan files, mailbots, or, for people who don't have Unix shell access, dynamic web pages. This would make the remailer network much more robust should the central registry be down. I think that running ephemeral remailers would be very useful if remailer software was configured to use them properly. Also, this would be useful for people who may have Unix shell access, but are not allowed to run remailer software. - -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMfgSGrZc+sv5siulAQGMxQP8C4lX6M/BmCsj/wQgl2uIx1Let7mb3gkI AQFUkqTCHu/wihjBMrwmf0IIjv31Lkx1EAOoQFUN3KECoyN1EJGOLeLnWRQU9coH LDjtuEsq4yxXxzq5/TtlSyEs8hgcdkDH8XsrN8QFd8axsmfNGLoBEtRigxCPEKP5 PZQ8BwlLbwc= =VUPL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----