One thing worth noting about the burst of remailer messages is how much worse it could have been. Each message was sent to many remailers, with requests to send it on to many more. Potentially the message could be duplicated n-fold at each step, until horrendous numbers of messages were circulating through the remailer network and being sent to the other destinations. Luckily, this didn't happen, apparently because most remailer software does not support multiple recipients. But the lesson is that as people deploy new remailers and improve the software, "multiple recipients" should *not* be added as a feature, IMO. Doing that would make the network vulnerable to these kinds of geometric-growth attacks. It would be so easy to do it that people would probably be tempted to try just for kicks. So I think this feature should definately be left out of future remailer plans. Hal