I think the single most important thing we could do for remailer operators would be to figure out how to make the remailers *truly* *anonymous*. That is, we need a net.hack of some sort that allows remailers to send their messages in a way that leaves no trace whatsoever of the original poster *and* leaves no trace of the remailer itself.

Net.veterans will perhaps recall a thread I started a while back along these lines... this is a technical problem, and I have the utmost confidence that the skills to solve this problem are around here somewhere. If I may make a humble suggestion, I would suggest that this problem is more immediate and pressing than many of the issues currently being debated.

One option might be for the remailer to forward messages giving a false ID/address - essentially, lying about who they are and where they live :-) That would seem to take care of the outbound traffic; how to deal with the inbound traffic is an exercise left for the reader ;-) Dave Merriman