-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Karl L. Barrus <barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu>

My original thinking was that once I established the id's in both direction, when someone responded to anon.435@pax, they would be allocated an id if they didn't have one. And since penet had by this time seen anon.435@pax, no new id would be made, and the mail would proceed on the me.

The problem is this: when someone responds to your anonymous ID anon.435@pax, their mail _from_ Pax does not come from anon.435. Anon.435 is _your_ id. Instead, their mail from Pax comes from their own anonymous ID (possibly a newly allocated one). Then, when the mail goes to Penet, it sees this new "From" ID and allocates one of its own. The same thing happened when you sent to anon.435@pax from your system which already had a Pax ID. When the mail was forwarded from Pax to Penet, it was not marked as coming from anon.435. Instead, it was marked as coming from this already-assigned Pax ID. (I don't think you ever said what that already-assigned ID was.) Penet had not seen that ID before, so it allocated an alias for it and sent back to that ID. Penet's mail-back would _not_ go to anon.435, but rather to the Pax ID which it was replying to. Hal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.1 iQCVAgUBK1F6D6gTA69YIUw3AQGMTAQAqXm7SdE6uyf+04J5GY3KU7dk7A2D7loC TeT+0UqpsSPOI+31YrJPww2h9XuwGylAZ9dqu/hPdolIzukjr+WiOKRyU34imezd iX9yYv3Ry3jCebcn9c79NY3zEQhjGh1LhqKmec5QLp3FjPB+gQZZypdaHz4GeDJF 4oDyArzKafc= =wZgY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Distribution: CYPHERPUNKS >INTERNET:CYPHERPUNKS@TOAD.COM