Gary wrote, I would add a few more suggestions of my own to your wishlist. 11) Seamless integration with existing mail programs, such as Eudora. what about...pine, pegasus, sendmail, airmail, news mail programs... I think this would be up to the individual user or for someone to develop the perfect pgp mail program. 12) Notification that your message has been received (I'm not sure how to do this and maintain anonymity) I don't know either if you chain your mail before it gets to the nym server. The idea of chaining is to keep the sender anonymous. Maybe if the nym server send mail to your reply block every time your alias and password are used to send mail. Though it would have to be something like "your alias has sent mail to the following xxx@xxx.xxx. 13) Ability to handle very large encrypted files (binaries). Why? I think this would either 1) cripple the server from the load 2) make it easier to track back to the sender. If you are comparing 1 meg files against 1000 byte files it would be much easier to filter out what you are not looking for. 3) give anon mailers the reputation of porn/warez/church of scientology document distibuters and not privacy mailers which defeats some of the things that are trying to get done. 14) Perhaps increasing security by breaking messages into several parts, routing them through different chains, and reassembling them just prior to transmission to recipient. Ouch. I think that would be hard to manage :) Can you imagine thousands of users sending tens of thousands of messages a day and having more than one remailer having to keep track of hundreds of thousands of 'chunks' of mail. That would start to resemble tcp/ip in complexity. Keep up the good work! The concepts are good, I just don't think the implementation would be very easy. You should sign up on the nym server mailing list that was posted here a few days ago if you are interested in pursuing these ideas. _____________________________________________________________ dochobbs@wwa.com M.D. Hobbs mhobbs@rad.rpslmc.edu http://miso.wwa.com/~dochobbs finger for my pgp key I am human and nothing human do I count alien.