David Womack writes:
Nice as remailers are, I wonder if it might be better to simply create a "message drop". Various anon ID's would be created, with suitable passwords.
If Sam wishes to mail to Joe, he sends to the account. It sits for up to a week before auto-deletion; prior to that time Joe can check his account for messages, retrieve as appropriate, leave other messages, and leave.
The "message drop" is essentially what a "pool" is, and such pools have been run before, and may still be running. (That few use them is an ongoing issue.) Mailing a message anonymously to a bulletin board, a newsgroup, or some other publically accessible area is the idea. A newsgroup (Eric Hughes and I proposed the facetious newsgroup "alt.w.a.s.t.e" for such messages, after Pynchon's mail service in "The Crying of Lot 49") has the advantage of worldwide distribution and essentially no ability to trace who reads the group. I used the groups "alt.extropians" and "alt.fan.david-sternlight" for the anonymous posting pools to be used with my example of "BlackNet." Of course, world-readable newsgroups will not continue to work forever, as volume of messages increases. (On the other hand, net bandwidth may increase faster than pool use, so....) Hope this helps. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power:2**859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available.