With regard to the problems of remailers being shut down when we want long-lived addresses, wouldn't seperating the input and output be one possibility? That is (like Hal's Alumni remailer) you'd send mail to 'remailer@anon.ai' and it would be forwarded via a disposable account elsewhere. All messages would appear to come from 'disposable@foo.com' and if that account was shut down a new one could be opened to replace it while incoming mail simply backed up at the main remailer account. The only potential problem I could see would be that the disposable ISP might have logs which could track the outgoing messages back to the other account. You'd also obviously need to open the disposable account anonymously or using an ISP who'd protect your identity. Mark