I've been toying lately with "tying" the remailers at pax and penet together. Briefly, the anonymous service at anon.penet.fi supports anonymous remailing (but you must register your id), anonymous posting, and anonymous forwarding. The remailer at pax.tpa.com.au support anonymous remailing (runs pgp, must register your key for encryption service) and anonymous posting. For more info, get the help files by mailing to help@anon.penet.fi and anon.info@pax.tpa.com.au.
Well, let's start by saying that fo%bar@blach addresses are pretty error prone, as there are a lot of brain-damaged mailers out there. Much safer to use the X-Anon-To: header for this kind of stuff. See the help file from help@anon.penet.fi for more info. Secondly, currently anon.penet.fi strips off PGP messages and signature blocks. I am going to fix the .sig stripper Real Soon Now.... Thirdly, I notice a lot of mailers get "From:" and "Sender:" (or envelope) addresses screwed up. Anon.penet.fi puts the anon id in the "From:" field, but makes "Sender:" point to the anon admin, to catch mail bounces that might reveal the true identity of an anon id. I don't know how pax.tpa.com.au handles this....
These are the anonymous id's I beleive I've generated because of this procedure: an5022@penet, an5030@penet, an5047@penet (I don't understand this one), anon.435@pax, anon.437@pax (I don't understand this one either). I figured I would use four id's: one from penet for barrus@tree, one from pax for barrus@tree, one from penet for pax, and one from pax for penet. For some reason, when I mail to anon.437@pax or an5047@penet from barrus@tree, the mail doesn't arrive in either of my accounts. So I'm still trying to sort out this mess before I mail to the administrators at both sites, explain what happened, and have these various id's deleted. Anybody with an id already established on pax or penet is welcome to mail to me at anon.208@pax or an5030@penet to help me figure out if it worked (I've run out of accounts to test this from and I don't want to involve elee7h5@rosebud where I'm running a remailer). I think the step I may have erred was mailing to anon.435@pax from elee9sf, where I have an id. Maybe by mailing from barrus@tree I would have been assigned an id, and recieved acknowledgement of an id from penet for the id at pax, and possibly an5047@penet wouldn't have been generated.
I'll check on those id's tomorrow. It's 11pm out here, and I have a specification to finish for a meeting tomorrow morning.... Julf (an0@anon.penet.fi)