I wrote an automated script to ping the following remailers: hfinney@shell.portal.com catalyst@netcom.com elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu remailer@chaos.bsu.edu hh@cicada.berkeley.edu hh@pmantis.berkeley.edu hh@soda.berkeley.edu ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu remailer@merde.dis.org Results were a bit faster with the automated program than before: Here they are: Test #1: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 12:52:58 -0500 (EST) nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 12:53:56 (+0:00:58) catalyst-remailer@netcom.com 12:53:57 (+0:00:59) nobody@shell.portal.com 12:53:57 (+0:00:59) nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 12:53:59 (+0:01:01) remailer-admin@chaos.bsu.edu 12:54:06 (+0:01:07) nobody@cicada.berkeley.edu 12:54:09 (+0:01:11) nobody@soda.berkeley.edu 12:54:13 (+0:01:15) nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu 12:54:16 (+0:01:18) remailer@dis.org 13:05:35 (+0:12:37) nobody@eli-remailer 15:32:51 (+2:39:53) Test #2: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 17:18:36 -0500 (EST) nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 17:19:04 (+0:00:28) catalyst-remailer@netcom.com 17:19:06 (+0:00:30) nobody@shell.portal.com 17:19:07 (+0:00:31) nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 17:19:19 (+0:00:43) remailer-admin@chaos.bsu.edu 17:19:19 (+0:00:43) nobody@cicada.berkeley.edu 17:19:24 (+0:00:48) nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu 17:19:31 (+0:00:55) nobody@soda.berkeley.edu 17:19:42 (+0:01:06) remailer@dis.org 17:20:43 (+0:02:07) nobody@eli-remailer 17:49:23 (+0:30:47) Results seem to vary depending on current network load and other factors, but some remailers do seem to be generally faster than others. I didn't test elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu since it always batches its messages and sends them out at midnite. remail@extropia.wimsey.com only accepts encrypted mail so I'll have to try that one seperately sometime. Note: hal@alumni.cco.caltech.edu forwards to hfinney@shell.portal.com Also, 00x@uclink.berkeley.edu forwards to hh@soda.berkeley.edu This makes these addresses a little slower, but I guess it helps foil traffic analysis a bit... Are there only 12 cypherpunk remailers plus two forwarding addresses? There were over twenty at one time... Please let me know if I've missed any.