At 06:44 PM 5/17/96 -0500, snow wrote:
How about this as an idea:
Get a few (3 to 5) accounts in a high density market (i.e. lots of ISP's locally) set up a unix machine on a cheap machine. Have the anon messages get sent to the pop accounts. Once an hour (or less depending on budget) have the unix box poll the different pop accounts mix the messages and resend them the next hour. This could be further obfuscated by batching the messages up and posting a whole chunk of messages to a different similar remailer else where, or by just plopping an encrypted tar'd file on a ftp site where another remailer grabs them and splits and remails them.
It seems to me that if we consider that there are two separate functions remailers provide: 1. Anonymization. 2. Jurisdiction swapping Then perhaps one way to improve the robustness of remailers against copyright-type legal attacks is to provide remailers with temporary (1-2 week) remail-only sites. All material would be processed by the front end, then delivered in bulk to the other site. This sounds similar to the idea you described. That way, the remailer's "front end" can stay around for years, developing reputation. Any attack on copyright would simply be an attack on the back end, which wouldn't last anyway. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com