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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:31:37 -0400 From: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org> Subject: Re: Remailer advertising

this, and decided that users would be bothered by getting return email when they send the remailer a message. We considered sending a return message not with each message, but say only once per month, or only once every two weeks. Feedback I got on this was that users would not like the remailer acknowledging them.

Of course not: - it provides even more non-covered traffic for Mallet to analyze - it proves that the remailer is keeping long-term records of its activity, further prompting Mallet to use rubber-hose crypto or a covert break-in to recover the data. A commercial remailers should keep no records and this means that each submission must include some form of token for immediate payment of access fees. Further, a secure remailer should NEVER send traffic to a subscriber as the result of anything other than normal traffic handling. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|