-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 phelix@vallnet.com wrote:
remailer could automatically announce itself to the world (perhaps via a newsgroup post). The various listing services would pick up on this. The more automated it is, the better.
How about posting availability notices alt.remailer-availability.announce (create it if necessary) or alt.anonymous.messages?
Yes, I was thinking along these lines, though right now I'm concentrating on the client end of things.
I'm not sure that Usenet would necessarily be the best idea for a primary source of remailer availability notices. After all, the latency associated with Usenet might be a problem. And more to the point, some of us have a problem reaching a news server. On a company LAN connected to the Internet, for example, any and every J. Random Eudora-user could or would become a remailer. (You could have 10 or 50 or more remailers per organization -- enough that it would be difficult for the sysadmins to squash them all.) But most companies do not allow access to a news server. A client could telnet out to someplace in the outside world to announce its presence or whatever, but not post to or read from Usenet. I think Usenet would serve an important role as a secondary, backup source of information that would support and mirror the pinging services. But to have Usenet as the only source of remailer availablility might be a little short-sighted. - -Eric Nystrom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNCllfz+xbtfofEE9AQHBEAQAsedYUkHqcVxSaB50LHslPCgKKCgx/Y2i lEIjmIGw+GFJPU+KLBqDEM9LEDt5avgWaPx63FwzItlyBjhIGYiRq68j+Lj8yZD3 JNNYGsjgJTkemqZPVqX0VyjaOo2OBLoWRKmqGnX4/LpFl9N1msH3ZlxBsE8bP5NC Hc49tqDD2fU= =cSS7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----