Samuel Kaplin writes:

How about locating it in a recalcitrant country e.g. North Korea, Libya, Iraq, Iran. During the Gulf war scuttlebutt has it that Iraq used encrypted communications on the Internet to keep its C3 functions up. (Command, Control, Communications) If they can't get at the remailer its pretty hard to shut it down.

Breakdown writes:

Hm, aren't European remailers something "like" Fortress remailers? The State surely doesn't require consent for anon.penet.fi or such and no one in the US(well I hope no one) knows the physical location of it... And you can post just about anything through that one :)....

Hmm. Unfortunately I think we're missing the point here. Perhaps a redefinition of SUFFERANCE REMAILERS... A SUFFERANCE REMAILER is remailer which exists only so long as *any* government, organization, person(s) does not decide (for whatever reasons) to shut it down, outlaw it, etc. Firstly, a remailer which is not directly vunerable to the U.S.'s "gun argument" may still be vunerable to any other country's gun argument; information is power, and no State may be trusted to act in our best interest insofar as information and communication are concerned. Secondly, sing the *placement* of a remailer in a recalcitrant country as the only means of defense against U.S. legislation will pretty much insure that the remailer's general location will, sooner or later, become a military target; whereas the remailer's location makes it *indirectly* vunerable to the U.S.'s "gun argument," the very fact that it is accessible by U.S. citizens makes it *directly* vunerable to the U.S. military machine. (Again, this is using on placement as a means of defense against any U.S. legislation.) And this brings up point C... It would not only be necessary to legislate against remailers, but would be necessary to legislate against *access* to remailers. This is what I imagine would happen. Lastly, Dave Merriman writes: [snip]

into a sealed room with umpteen bajillion other identical links [snip}

Umpteen is spelled with an 'h.' ;)

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SUFFERANCE REMAILERS

Definition of SUFFERANCE REMAILER: A remailer that exists only so long as the U.S. Feds get around to outlawing it.; a sitting duck remailer. ; a remailer whose physical location may easily be found.; a remailer whose operator is vulnerable to the State's gun argument.; currently, the only kind of remailer there is.

Definition of FORTRESS REMAILER: A remailer whose physical location cannot be found. ; a remailer that does not require the consent of the State. ; a Freedom remailer.

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