17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
I see about 200 messages a day through my remailer, sizes averaging a couple of K. I had the impression at one point that the VAST majority of this was "cover" traffic that someone is generating just to keep the network busy. I don't know if this is still the case. It might be possible to opt out of the cover traffic generator to reduce your load to a politically manageable level. Maybe people generating cover traffic could estimate how many messages they are generating. My remailer is a little unusual as the alumni.caltech.edu remailer always feeds into this one, so this may represent two remailers' worth of traffic. Hal