Meyer Wolfsheim wrote in reply:

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Do you know how many messages are going through the remailer network now? How many do you think the average remailer processes in a day?

I'm assuming 5-10K/day. I don't know what Tim and others discussed at the meeting that Tim references. Ask him.

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Now, how many do you think a remailer ought to be handling in order for there to be enough traffic for people to feel safe?

I'm unsure. Part of the problem is that I really don't know how many people are sending messages to the remailer network each day. I suspect the number is low.

A popular remailer will handle some 3,500 messages a day. But this includes intra remailer-network traffic. How many of those messages are messages entering and leaving the cloud is any remailer operator's guess, since current remailer statistics software has no means to differentiate between internal and boundary traffic. Of course any self-respecting TLA would know the those figures that the remail operators themselves are currently unable to obtain. [Yet another feature request...] --Lucky