XXXX wrote:

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Those who have never operated a remailer fail to realize that the main goal of a remailer-operator should not be to provide a non-discriminatory forwarding service for anonymous users, but to ensure continued operation by not ruffling the feathers of upstream providers, and to provide a spam/UCE filtering service

If the xxxx remailer was to allow non-PGP message and to stop processing block requests, would you be willing to underwrite any legal costs incurred?

Nope. I have always found that those who attempt to cause me legal problems find themselves suddenly beset by problems of a much greater magnitude than those presented by my presence and actions, and quickly turn their attention to dealing with the greater problems in their life.

You yourself know how repressive the Canadian government is, look at the RCMP takeover in Moncton, look at the RCMP attacking (law-abiding) protestors at APEC, it is all around us. We are trying to preserve feedoms in Canada, but I don't see any results from your cynical crap. All you seem to do is whin, poke fun, and annoy. At the end of the day how much have you done? I am growing tried of your holier than thou speech from the throne.

Actually, it is difficult to maintain a 'holier than thou' attitude when you're a cynical, whining, annoying asshole (but Lord knows, I try). As to how much I *do* by the end of the day, it is really nobody's business but my own, since the repressive forces you mention above make it advisable for many forms of active resistance to oppression to be done quietly, or from the shadows. Even when poking fun at fellow remailer-operators who sometimes appear to have forgotten that their original objective was to drain the swamp, I assume that the activities reflected in their public communications are not necessarily representative of their total contribution to providing tools and services supporting the basic human rights and freedoms which have become increasingly dangerous to exercise. The public remailers being maintained are an important training ground and showcase for the communications and privacy/anonymity tools being developed and used in their operation, but their very availability itself results in their exposure to the haphazard vagarities of social pressures and targeted oppression by those forces which feel threatened by tools which allow others to avoid being monitored and controlled. Current threads on the CypherPunks list regarding Eternity servers, mirrors, BlackNet, covert and/or private backroads on the 'Super- Highway', etc., are being disseminated to--and studied with great interest by--a wide variety of individuals who are fast becoming increasingly aware that the next few years will be turbulent times wherein those who fail to take steps to cover their own ass will find themselves being 'protected' by the government and corporate wolves offering us technologies based only on the "Trust Us" system. Revolutions rarely begin with grand pronouncements and massive public displays of resistance in the street. They usually begin in basements and secret rooms where increasing numbers of citizens begin preparing to protect and defend their own freedom and rights. When the shit hits the fan, many are surprised to find how many of their friends and neighbors have already been doing the same. The Revolution is *always* NOW!