jim bell wrote:
At 10:35 PM 3/20/97 -0500, John Perry wrote:
Apparently some high-ranking official has been receiving anonymous email coming from my site that is of a threatening nature. This official has decided to call in the FBI as I was visited by said organization. I am shutting down remailer operations immediately.
I think you should name the "high-ranking official" involved.
If there actually is one.
We (and you) might also point out that as far as you know, these threatening notes could have been send by GOVERNMENT people, in an attempt to shut down the system.
Perhaps there was no threatening note. Perhaps there was no visit from the FBI. The attempt to destroy the cypherpunks list failed. The next logical target would be the remailers. Two remailers go down in the same week, both being tenacles of C2Net. Greg Broiles once again happens upon the scene of the accident, and predictably warns everyone of the grave dangers and liabilities facing remailer operators. How long until he publicly calls for the remailers to be "killed," as he did with the cypherpunks list? Instead of solutions to the problems facing small remailers, we have schills coming out of the woodwork to proclaim that remailers are only feasible for Big Business to operate. Corporate takeover of the list failed, now corporate takeover of the remailers seems to be the new agenda. I suggest that, instead of wasting time on a new battle, we simply resurrect all of the arguments over list control and re-post them as arguments over remailer control, simply substituting the word "remailer" everywhere that the word "list" occurs. Truthmonger Cindy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~