From: IN%"hfinney@shell.portal.com" "Hal" 15-MAY-1996 00:14:06.38

I think the intention then is to create "fully anonymous" companies. These would be organizations whose principals and employees are known only by pseudonyms, even to each other. Their only contact is electronic, via an anonymous network. And the employees are paid in anonymous ecash, which they don't pay taxes on since it is unreported income.

The anonymous network would appear to be a possible weak point. If governments keep shutting down remailers and other such devices, then it won't work. Therefore, I've been doing some preliminary work in this area. My first result is as follows. One subject that has come up recently is that of remailer operations in countries outside the United States, so as to chain them to produce jurisdictional headaches. The following is a preliminary list of companies and organizations that might be used to run an out-of-US remailer, assuming telnetting to a UNIX shell. In selecting these, I generally excluded: ones in authoritarian countries (e.g., China and Singapore); ones that appear to be government-run; ones where they didn't appear to understand English very well; ones in the European Community (except for a few such as Malta that don't cooperate very well with the European Community); ones that charge for mail volume; and ones that stated they did not run shell accounts. I did not include offshore.com.ai in Anguilla due to its high cost; I consider anything over 25$ a month to be impractical. _Country/Area_ _Name_ _Email_ Anguilla Cable & Wireless webmaster@candw.com.ai Antigua Cable & Wireless scholla@candw.ag Barbados CaribSurf webmaster@caribsurf.com Denmark cybernet.dk info@cybernet.dk Finland Clinet Ltd clinet@clinet.fi Finland Net People Ltd helpdesk@netppl.fi Finland Xgateway Finland Ltd* pal@xgw.fi Iceland Multimedia Consumer Services mmedia@mmedia.is Isle of Man Advanced Systems Consultants** info@advsys.co.uk Jamaica InfoChannel icquery@infochan.com Liechtenstein Ping Services afink@ping.ch Liechtenstein Online Store AG webmaster@onlinestore.com Malaysia MIMOS mal@mimos.my Malta maltaNET info@maltanet.omnes.net Sweden FX AB fx@uni-x.se Sweden Internet One** Support@one.se Sweden Kajplats 305 info@kajen.malmo.se * = This organization has on its main page a link to a document called the "Declaration of an Independent Internet." It thus may be possible to persuade them to support a remailer at reduced or no charge as part of this. ** = This organization's main page has the EFF blue ribbon, unlike others. I would appreciate comment on all aspects of this list. These include: additional companies and countries to add; companies or countries to take off (international politics & law is not my subject); and suggestions about where to look for more (it is quite possible that I did not locate all the lists of out-of-US ISPs). Once I have some feedback on which ones to check with, I'll email them and ask about prices (in US dollars), further information on policies, etcetera. -Allen