In message <9303290017.AA05745@toad.com> you write:

perfect prelude to blackmail. An unscrupulous person running a remailer can obviously keep records of truenames, along with messages that their senders do not want associated with them.

That's why you use more than one remailer and you encrypt the messages. This guards against single-point failures...

Always encrypting helps with mail, but not with news.

Why? One layer of encription is stripped by each remailer. Use three layers of encription and three remailers: The first remailer will know that you sent something encripted; the third will see the message and the destination but not know that you were the author. stig