To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Keyservers and anonymous Mailings Newsgroups: mail.cypherpunks In-Reply-To: <199312160710.AA28701@access3.digex.net> Organization: An Teallach Limited In article <199312160710.AA28701@access3.digex.net> you write: :If PKP is going to employ this tactic, it seems that even the :'new' keyservers that run as simple databases and thus are not a :copyright question are subject to harassment in the least, even if :unfounded. If this is true, would anonymous remailing provide a :buffer of some type? First of all, I wrote the new replacement keyserver and I happen to know it isn't even released yet (except to a handful of people for the purposes of testing portability and ease of installation etc), so it is not *possible* that the new sites have been harassed, and I think you should wait until it happens before you start worrying about it. As I've said before, all these keyservers will be doing is *publishing* information, and that's a protected right in the US. Now, if pkp choose to start chasing down people who publish their keys and asking them if they have a license (assuming they're in the US and need one), that's a different thing altogether, but that could happen at the moment given that the actual keys are up for ftp all over already. A keyserver that doesn't patent (or copyright? Who told you that?) infringe *cannot* be closed down even if the people whose keys are published *are* harassed. Anyway, the keyservers have to exist for the benefit of both ViaCrypt customers and European FreePGP users. G