penet hack

I have never sent any messages using the remailer. So whoever is fiddling with the remailer is still doing it. Is it a coincidence that I posted to this list for the first time a few days ago?

No cause for alarm. The way this works is that the cypherpunks list has members that are subscribed through anon.penet.fi. If the mailing list sends the message as you (as opposed to sending it as cypherpunks@toad.com) then it will send a message from you to the anonymous subscriber. Because of the double-blind feature of anon.penet.fi this will cause allocation of an ID. Hence if you send email to this list you're likely to get an ID assigned and receive the message from anon.penet.fi --JYL