Hal Finney writes:
I feel that the main purpose of an anonymous address is to protect the anonymity of the person being addressed, not people who send to him. Just because a person chooses to be anonymous is no reason to expect that everyone who wants to talk to him also wants to be anonymous. I think it would be better to only provide anonymity when asked. Systems that do too much for people sometimes get in the way.
Well, yeeeeesss... but.... It all depends on the intended target audience. If our users are pretty sophisticated netfreaks, I agree that the philosophy of the system ought to be "only do what the user asks for". But if the users are non-computer-literate people, seeking a source of support and understanding in this vast mess of e-mail and netnews, I feel they need and deserve all the hand-holding and safety switches the software can provide. So it seems there is room and need for *different* remailers. Julf