"hf" == Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> writes: hf> Interestingly, the standard nntpd (nntp daemon, the master server hf> which runs on a site which offers web pages) from CERN includes hf> proxying capability automatically! All you have to do is to add a hf> few lines to the configuration file. If this idea proves sound, hf> perhaps some people running nntpd will enable proxies and serve as hf> "remailer operators of the web". Thanks for the overview of www proxies. One correction--nntp is the network news (USENET) transport protocol, http is the hypertext (www) transport protocol. Upon first reading, I was confused about how news admins could become ``remailer operators of the web''. If you really did mean to use ``nntp'', then I'm still confused. michael