On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Steve Furlong wrote:
cost might be a little extra electricity. No funding is necessary unless the usage is so high that my ISP bitches at me. Personal time involved in maintaining the system will, I hope, be low; if it's more than negligible I won't be able to do it. I can see the sense of running the plan past a lawyer, but why would there be a continuing expense in this area?
People will use your remailer to send spam and death threats. There may even be people who will use your remailer to send spam and death threats to themselves, simply because they hate remailers. The recipients will contact you and your ISP. Repeatedly. My impression from reading alt.privacy.anon-server is that for many ISPs, it doesn't take too much of this before the ISP asks the remailer to leave. It's not a question of legal liability so much as the spam and the hassle. (An example of how life is lived mainly outside the law, though maybe in view of it.) You can implement spam-blocking filters on your remailer...but that's another can of worms. -David