-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- David E. Smith wrote:

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If so, what accounts for these message losses? I would expect that if your machine was down, even for a couple of days, that the incoming messages would be queued up on other machines and none would be lost.

It's more like "of the last 1000 messages sent, 9964 of 'em have made it back to me." Because of the way I have to have things set up, there are almost always a few messages in transit. I have, very occasionally, actually seen my remailer listed at 100%; somewhere over 99% is far more common.

But, presumably Raph waits awhile for the message before deciding the machine is down? If I understand correctly, you are saying that messages don't actually disappear, but they are sometimes delayed for longer than the two days Raph waits* for them to come back. (* Assumption made on the basis that his timing data doesn't describe any delays longer than two days.)

For me, the remailer doesn't consume any exceptional new resources, so the added cost to me of running a remailer is very nearly zero. (Those are mostly the "administrative" costs of dealing with complaints, adding people to the blocklist, and cleaning up after the occasional spam bomb.) Others, with different circumstances, may be more eager to pursue a profit-making solution.

It could cover the cost of that second line. ;-) If you haven't tried ecash, you might enjoy it. Setting up your remailer to accept it is a lot easier than you might think. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNC6PkZaWtjSmRH/5AQEg9Qf9F+GGZF733IDPbjuRSpIqH5KhhTVJTDMQ JCbzZdwfqvjzRvv6El/xH1y0cMvpcd2xes+QF3HMxRL+XU9tGpQOUwyBHXvTi247 sXB5TfgXLYowOjeR/PbjnT06SBG1ygj2kxe+0CZc9OQWlWgliMQG0OxPw3p/A3On WR7fxnlweRlPiDMZdXq/DMMpDs/Se+ypFpKZriTeS6iWzBG2Bi+F+GKHBEa3V7M9 hnVxGiFE0TnirII0n/h8yFcpQ/ULTG/Z3wqOxyZOvkaVyZlPCAl4mM0AOIWgNeZt HeSk18TERHcRg5u+QeeDRKnNQepeN3UJ5g/NYCGzaRe79f3SMg83mw== =zom6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----