Someone wrote: : ! > I remember the load on anon.penet.fi was something like 7500 messages : ! > daily. As for connection, you will need 64kbps line or even less in case : ! > you compress the messages. The machine could be either an older Sun Sparc : ! > or a PC running free Unix (Linux/FreeBSD/...) anon.penet.fi actually used a 486/66 running FreeBSD. Dave Harman OBC (qut@netcom.com) wrote: : ! I suggest the following configuration: a IBM 486 PC with 16MB of : ! RAM and 28.8 modem, running qmail instead of sendmail and Linux, : : How is qmail better than sendmail? The default BSD sendmail since 8.00+ : has automated ident requests built in. It can easily be compiled without : that default option, for greater efficiency. Disable reverse-DNS too... : ! on a dedicated 28.8 PPP line. The cheapest used VGA display from : ! the nearby waste dump will work just fine. : : Hell, any monitor should work! You don't need a monitor at all. Since we're assuming that the remailer is a dedicated machine, and you'll do your real work on another computer, just plug a null modem cable into the serial ports and use a terminal program on your other computer. : ! Estimated cost: $700-1000 for the system, $50-100/month for the : ! connection, and 3 hours per day to deal with mailbombing from $500 tops. 8MB is probably okay, 16 might improve resistance to mailbombs a bit tho. You can get 486 motherboards for under $100 nowadays. Do the math: used 486 MB+CPU: $100 16MB RAM: $150 case+powersupply: $50 100MB HD: $20 HD Controller: $15 Dual 16550 Serial Card: $15 28800bps Modem: $150 ------ $500 And if you really want to run a remailer, I can sell you most of the above, and I'll even throw in a 340MB IDE HD with Linux+remailers preinstalled! (Yes, I'm serious.)