Dear Decius, I greatly enjoyed your post on this topic at the cpyherpunks list. On a related issue, I have been giving a lot of thought to the possibility of moving the functional aspect of anon servers away from professionally administered and globally known sites like C2 to many smaller virtually unknown sites. I have been informed that the latest Sysquest parallel port 135 Mb drive lets you boot off of it, (e.g. load the driver off a floppy then boot a new OS off the Sysquest.) This permits one to put a linux kernal, lots of utilities, pgp, mixmaster, etc. etc. on the single $20 floppy drive, along with an easy to use and understand interface for the "sysop." People can then have a complete mixmaster etc. system regardless of what OS they use on their regular machine, resident on a floppy easy to hide and cheap enough to destroy. It would lead to an enormous number of sites popping up among jr. high school students in the family garage or rec room through undregrads in their dorm rooms. Access would be mainly through personal friendships and word of mouth. Makes it almost infinitely more difficult for government to track them down let alone clamp down. --tallpaul