Do any of the remailer schemes proposed address the problem of the ability to have replies sent to you without the replier knowing to whom they are replying - this being akin to P.O.Boxes / Magazine box numbers and equivalents. A sample use might be. I wish to send someone a message so I request a box from someone e.g. --- mail to someone@somewhere AllocateBoxTo:hpengwyn@cix.compulink.co.uk --- This would send a code to you identifying a unique box and allowing you to identify yourself (presumably you would want the ability to send this reply by remailer so you are not identifying yourself to the box holder). It would also send a code to you for you to pass on to repliers to your message. You would then post and/or send the message to the person/people you wished to communicate with (this need not be from the same account) passing on the second of these two codes and an address to send messages to (this would presumably be the box holding company unless you wanted the replier not to kno- w who was running the box, as well as not knowing who it is for). They would reply by sending this code and a message to the address given (possibly anonymously of course). This message (probably encrypted) would be held for you - allowing you to receive messages from accounts not even set up at the time you requested the box. You would then get the replies by sending a message e.g. --- mail to someone@somewhere GetReplies <text of FIRST code sent by box holder> <address or some mechanism for replies to find you> --- Maybe the scheme discussed previously can do all of this (except the ability to have accounts set up after replies have been sent to you) if so please explain how. [I have only recently joined the list] Thanks, John
John, Thanks for the comments. Right now (as far as I know) the only way to be able to receive "anonymous replies" is for you to include in your message the appropriate header. This is the method I use: create the necessary remailing request to your real mail address, and include that with the instructions on how to use it. For example: ----here is a sample letter---- Hello, This is an anonymous letter and you don't know who I am. To reply, cut everything below the marks, add your text on the end, and send the whole thing to this address: <a remailer's address> -----cut here----- :: Encrypted: PGP <here is where you would put your encrypted remailing request to your real mail address...> <Enter your text here, below the "END PGP" block that will delimit the remailing request. Mail the portion between the cut marks to the appropriate remailer.> ----cut here---- ----end of the sample letter---- It works! /-----------------------------------\ | Karl L. Barrus | | barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXTMail) | | elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu | \-----------------------------------/
The new remailers will support pseudonymous return addresses, but they're not ready yet. dean
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