On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Steve Reid wrote:
I thought that most or all of the cypherpunk anonymous remailers don't keep records. Not even on backup tapes. The whole idea is that there aren't logs. But maybe they have found some remailers that are
When a person recieves a message from someone using an anonymous remailer, the return address will usually work, depending on the remailer. The return address is for an address on the remailer, and
The above is very confusing and stems, IMHO, from imprecise use of terms. It is important to distinguish between 4 types of remailers: * traceable pseudonymous * untraceable pseudonymous * traceable anonymous * untraceable anonymous The text quoted above is true if it describes a "traceable pseudonymous" remailer, e.g. anon.penet.fi. This is different from, say, a cypherpunks style remailer. For a full, perhaps tedious, explication of all this and other stuff too, see http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/ocean1-7.htm an earlier, much shorter, and slightly dated, treatement of the anonymity issues only can be found at http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/froomkin.htm [...] A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin@law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warmish here.