Aimee Farr writes:

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It's also rather interesting that Aimee is objecting to people "cowering behind remailers". On the cypherpunk list? On the contrary, we should all be using remailers. Someone > seriously

does need to start a node which only accepts posts

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from remailers. I'm beginning to strongly suspect Aimee as > as troll.

See Anderson v. Hale, N.D. Ill., No. 00-C-2021, 05/10/01

After two days of fighting with their Mickey Mouse software, I actually managed to track down this case on the web page of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. While somewhat interesting with respect to the disclosure of personal details behind "anonymous" email accounts, it's got very little to do with the snippet above that it was offered in reply to. Cypherpunks remailers do not have associated account identity information as was being sought in this case (at least not to the extent that such information is associated with the sender of one or more particular messages). In fact, the "anonymous" accounts referred to in that case are/were not anonymous at all in the cypherpunkian sense and did not issue via remailers; those accounts are pseudonymous (like the account from which this message came [or the account known as aimee.farr@pobox.com? :]). This is why the people in that case really were "cowering" behind their "remailers". If they'd used cypherpunks- anonymous remailers, they'd be raising their middle finger from behind their remailers. Finally, if Aimee doesn't wish to be perceived as a troll, she really needs to try harder. Echoing calls for Choate to provide summary information describing the topics of URLs he forwards, I would like to ask Aimee to provide a synopsis of cases she cites here and preferably a few words on why she thinks that case is interesting or applicable to the current thread. Rather than just tossing the lawyerly pearls before us unappreciative swine. - GH _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp