I've been enjoying the discussion of "disposable" remailers, but I note a problem. If this has been addressed before, well, now it's being noted again. In my (admittedly limited) experience with nym servers, the reply path is fixed - it goes through specified hops. This creates A Problem when any one of the remailers involved goes down. There's no way for the mail to get through. There's not even a way for the nym holder to verify that there is a site down, as opposed to some more transitory problem, without information from an external source. This seems to me a fairly serious weakness, given prevailing governmental attitudes. What would it take to create a nym server that could route around the death or disability of any given mailer? -- Bruce Baugh bruce@aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce