In message <9401261719.AA27870@bogart.Colorado.EDU>, "W. Kinney" writes:
Is there some reason why lots of 'punks _aren't_ running a simple script that will, say, fire a message to one's self through a chain of remailers every time you log on or at random intervals or something?
This is a nice little opportunity for everybody to help out the remailer operators. God knows, this list seems to be capable of generating sufficient noise -- all we have to d is harness it :-). The question is, how much traffic is _too_ much? Recommendations from remailer people?
Greetings! We are the remailer people! We mean no harm to your net and its users. I have been toying with similar ideas for a while, and would like to start implementing this feature. My remailer can certainly afford to sendmail about 2000 times a day, which is at least 10 to 100 times the actual traffic. Actual traffic would be completely lost in a stream of noise. However, for this to be effective at all, it has to be all encrypted, so noise will be indistinguishible from signal. I am currently working on an alias remailer with lots of encryption. Because users are going to be required to run pgp, I might as well also require them to accept about 10 messages a day of noise, and run slocal or something like it to filter it out. They should also send me about 10 messages a day of noise, and I will certainly be implementing stuff to filter that out. I certanily wouldn't mind if people sent me a bunch of mail with Anon-Send-To: nobody@soda which will just go to /dev/null. If someone writes some scripts to send this mail automatically several times a day, go ahead and post it and run it, because that would be great. I might actually post such a script later on tonight. My soda remailer does not yet support encryption, so that will have to wait. Since this isn't going to be encrypted, I would recomend that you send mail that's slightly different each time, and includes lots of good keywords (cocaine, machine guns, environmentalism, bomb, allah, etc). e