Thanks for the many suggestions posted here and sent privately to me about ways to deal with the possible use of my remailer to send abusive messages. I have taken two steps, and I could fairly easily take a third. First, I sent a letter to the girl who complained explaining that the message was not actually from me, that it was from an experimental remailing software package, and telling her to let me know if she got more objectionable messages. Second, I changed the header line inserted by my remailer to what you see above. (This message is being forwarded by my remailer.) Hopefully this will clue people in to what is happening. I didn't want to mess with the message body based on the discussion we have had here on that issue. I'd appreciate comments about the wording and appropriateness of the header line, if anyone can offer improvements. (As an unprivileged user of this system, I do not have the ability to create new accounts so that the message would appear to come from "remailer". The best I could do is get it into the From: line in the header, but my name still shows in the "out of band" From line which precedes the header.) What I could do, if more "problem" messages come through, is create a list of people _not_ to forward mail to. Some people have suggested the creation of a list not to forward mail _from_, but that is more difficult in an environment of chained remailers (since I can't always determine the message source). It should be pretty easy to check to see whether the destination of a remail request is on the list of people "not to be bothered", and to not send it in that case. We could even share this list among the various remailer operators. That does not require any collusion or message logging, and it seems like it should largely address the problem. Hal 74076.1041@compuserve.com