From: IN%"dsmith@prairienet.org" 22-MAY-1996 01:33:37.30
Actually, there's an Idea. Set up a single address; use added headers in the style of:
:: Remailers-To-Chain: 7 Remailers-To-Avoid: remailer@nsa.gov Final-Destination: tcmay@got.net
Each remailer could construct a message that decrements the remailers counter, preserving the other headers. The usual caveat on encrypting at each step would apply; but since remailers' pubkeys are available, that's a trivial concern.
Well, if you use this for the entirety of the chain, you'll be giving away the cleartext at each step. Not too good of an idea. You won't want the mails to an output location to themselves go through remailers; you'd want multiple remailers going to the same output location (or group of output locations, which is probably preferable) via a more direct means such as POP. Otherwise, you've simply got the same old - but good nonetheless - of adding on new full remailers to the end of a chain, which doesn't avoid problems for the full remailer at the end. (Re: TCMay's post in response to yours.) -Allen