Yes, you are missing a lot. The bit about foreign inteligence agencies is almost certainly a canard created by one Strassman at a conference in Boston 2 years ago, then retracted. Anyway, if you use chaining, it's irrelevant. See <A HREF="http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm"> http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm </A> and <A HREF="http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/arbitr.htm"> http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/arbitr.htm </A> for the gory details. Note that I use a remailer beacause this group may be gatewayed to Usenet and I am trying to keep down the spam... On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roger J. Jones wrote:
Why is it that some who are very concerned about their personal privacy utilize anonymous remailers that:
1) Log all of their mail messages? 2) Are in many cases reputed to be run by foreign intelligence services?
Do they really trust the owner of the remailer? (Unless of course, it is their remailer?) I seem to be missing something.
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