Re: SEVERE undercapacity, we need more remailer servers FAST
At 02:29 PM 5/15/96 -0700, you wrote:
What do I need to do to support a remailer that posts to non binary newsgroups? (I do not have root control on a unix machine other than my employers machine, for which I am unlikely to receive approval to use in this fashion.)
1) You either need lots of patience, or you need to really _not_ care about people getting spammed from your remailer. The patience is because you'll get some flames, and you really should read the remailer-operators@c2.org newsgroup to keep track of spammers or spammees that you need to block. Most of the remailers make it easy to block based on origin or destination of messages by putting a pattern in their block files. Adding content blocking is just a Simple Matter of Programming, but it's getting to be necessary given some of the spams to newsgroups these days, such as posting hate articles with a victim's name attached. 2) You need a machine that will accept nntp news postings from you. It's probably much more convenient if you can get the postings to go out with your own domain on them (jim.com is fine; isp.net is okay, employer.com is bad, employer's-isp.com is less bad.) Play around with the machine you're getting your newsfeed from. 3) You need a news-capable remailer; I've got a modified ghio2 downloadable from http://idiom.com/~wcs/remailer.c ; modify the relevant #defines for your remailer's information, compile and go. 4) I suppose if you're going to hack the remailer anyway, you could add a feature that adds a trailer like ================================================================== This message was posted from the anonymous remailer at www.jim.com. Send any complaints to webmaster@www.jim.com . Please don't post any copyrighted material longer than fair use quotations. And did you know that Scientology's highly overpriced documents say that "<random paragraph quotation>" =================================================================== # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
4) I suppose if you're going to hack the remailer anyway, you could add a feature that adds a trailer like ================================================================== This message was posted from the anonymous remailer at www.jim.com. Send any complaints to webmaster@www.jim.com . Please don't post any copyrighted material longer than fair use quotations. And did you know that Scientology's highly overpriced documents say that "<random paragraph quotation>" ===================================================================
Once I was more or less done laughing and got off the floor, it occurred to me that this could provide a revenue stream for anonymous remailers. You'd charge advertisers sub-pennies for these little trailers. I understand that Sameer is getting very little Ecash for his remail/by-www.html, but maybe if he sold advertising space? Sure it's crass, but it supposedly works for Juno, the "free email" service... -rich
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