At 10:39 PM 12/11/2001 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 10:07 PM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
As we (again) discussed at this past Saturday's physical meeting, in Santa Cruz, a sparse set of users and messages is almost a toy system. Remailer traffic needs to go up by a large factor, whether actual messages or dummy messages. Remailers need to be more robust (uptime, strong policies) and need to be incentivized (paid remailers, an old topic).
During your "rant" on re-mailers I mentioned the desirability of using popular P2P services in conjunction with remailers, possibly as middleman nodes. Len pointed out the problems with re-mailer system stability if P2P clients were used as they come and go. During the break there was a short discussion of using the P2P clients to generate cover traffic on remailers. This should be simple and involve no risk to those running the clients. steve