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Interesting point... I guess that is a good reason why free anonymous remailers might not ever die out, but pay remailers may be able to offer enhanced features and services that would tend to attract the vast majority of customers (assuming such a service would be considered as valuable by enough people ;)

Scott wrote:

In actuality having only purely commercial remailers in a chain would likely lead to security concerns of the following nature. When remailers end up requiring postage, people will tend to use the cheapest remailers to cut down on costs. Who will be in a position to offer the cheapest rates under a commercial proposition? Someone who

But this assumes that commercial remailers will not take in enough money to keep themselves afloat. Which could very well be true! What you describe is a serious problem indeed: in which only a "deep pockets/government front/whatever" can run a pay remailer and most free remailers exist on unsecure systems.

This speaks highly for the "every man a remailer" concept. If you know people who run remailers and trust that they are not compromised

But this is the problem, if the remailer operator is just an ordinary user, he/she may not even know their remailer is compromised, since there is only so much an ordinary user can do. You're trustworthy friends may be victim of a sysadmin who does sendmail logging, etc. Karl Barrus klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLkxBbsSF/V8IjI8hAQF4rQP+NOtdzvtGUSK6sZzR1BL6fVAuehZGMM1A bjlGmPFOjN3G+44AsL8+l2BF4RvujGZ7YCRwvhggjpQC2yqI02m7xqlgIukqQlQR zUec88zzGi+XC0CrBovOXZVzlbkl8UxdQXa/FNTjczf4QLd1+8hv7h2D1wb0J0yD BknFwcAibZw= =QhUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Karl L. Barrus: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu 2.3: 5AD633; D1 59 9D 48 72 E9 19 D5 3D F3 93 7E 81 B5 CC 32 2.6: 088C8F21; 97 73 9E 8B 98 3E DD B5 E8 97 64 7E 20 95 60 D9 "One man's mnemonic is another man's cryptography" - K. Cooper