---------- From: R. A. Hettinga[SMTP:rah@shipwright.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:59 PM To: Trei, Peter; Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

At 10:48 AM -0400 on 10/3/00, Trei, Peter wrote:

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The only bad point:

* All recipients need to have key pairs. Thus, a crypto-only remailer can't be a terminal remailer to mailing lists, newsgroups, or individuals without keypairs.

Not a problem, one would think. Just need to have a key-pair for a list-server or mail-to-news-gateway. If it gets onerous, each mail or newsgroup on the server can have its own keypair as well.

No, it's still a problem. The goals here are to insulate intermediaries from responsibility for content, and make the intermediaries unfriendly to spammers. With your suggestion, the responsibility for content - and spamming - is dumped on the list-server or gateway owner, which is no better than dumping it on the terminal remailer. I no more want to see a listserv or gateway owner in trouble than I do a remailer operator. Forwarding plaintext, or exploding plaintext to many recipients is what can get you into trouble. [...] Peter Trei

Cheers, RAH