From: The Phantom <phantom@u.washington.edu>

I'm going to have to shut down the phantom remailer.

Seems someone complained about a remailed message. I got a copy of the message, and it didn't seem to bad to me, but I've gotta go with what UCS says.

As of today, the phantom remailer (phantom@mead) is hereby out of service.

Matt

It's too bad that this remailer is being shut down. I posted a few days ago about this problem, and someone asked if there had been any specific examples of shutdowns. Here is one; I know Matt's is not the first. If it would help, Matt, I could provide you with code to act as a "second- tier" remailer, one which would only forward to one of the other Cypherpunks remailers. No person would receive messages from your remailer, hence there would be no complaints to your administration. Your remailer would just be an extra "entry port" into the Cypherpunks remailer system. I don't know whether the terms of the shutdown of your remailer would allow you to experiment with what is arguably a different piece of code, one which would not lead to complaints. Hal Finney hfinney@shell.portal.com