-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 16 May 1996, Hal wrote:
We have discussed for-pay remailers and the consensus has been that no one would use them when others run for free. However now I think the false premise is being exposed, that free remailers simply will not be able to run in the current mode for much longer. Once a single remailer operator has been fined thousands of dollars because somebody posted some copyrighted message, I don't think you will find many people eager to sign up as operators. So this dream of a volatile collection of remailers popping up and going away just doesn't work in my view. Why would anyone offer a service knowing that he was exposing himself to liability like this? It would be just a game of Russian roulette, waiting to see whether it is your remailer which gets the bullet in the form of a post which violates the copyright of someone with deep pockets.
It is possible for someone to operate an anonymous remailer anonymously. Just get a UNIX shell account under a fake name, pay with cash, and set up the remailing software. The identity of the operator of such a remailer would be difficult, if not impossible, to discover. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 ((2b) || !(2b)) | Old key now used only for signatures "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMZ5ts7Zc+sv5siulAQH2QwQAn0xEONohrZ0Eoj5MMxL8NS/i/G48U5nR 1uLI2PXeBBbCSJQ5SXxp/4JoOZR13NkaIhAwBaCAcJRRV1AKa+f9xuK4wwbrqElg ud24RRn7zf7H4HPkFSZF8uqQK/y7jjsJdhvtlVytyAKp4TnnkuGH8K1b44aW5OgM wgbaT6UNiCw= =Y4kV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----