On Sep 20, 1:43pm, Alex de Joode wrote:

: No US Attorney is going to be interested in the sort of messy political case : that would be involved in remailer prosecutions.

Please keep in mind that the US jurisdiction doen't cover the whole earth.

But the US government over the past decade have made several moves which tend to indicate that they DO consider their juristiction to pass their borders. If memory serves me correctly, the original US Crime Bill also included sections which made the killing of a US citizen outside the US a crime (punishable by death no less), which is clearly an extension of US laws past US borders. And let's not forget Panama.

(There is life outside the US)

A small aside, but a couple of years back I was the system admin on an educational political simulation run over the Internet between Macquarie University, Georgetown University and another University in Texas which will remain unnamed to protect the guilty. During the setup phases, the system admin from Texas informed us that he had setup an alias called "world". Sadly, he could not understand the hilarity at the Georgetown and Macquarie ends when we discovered that "world" consisted of only accounts in Texas. Fortunately, the next time we played the simulation we got a much better system admin who realised that there was physical existance past the Texan border. Ian.