Modulo the recent discussion of how some remailers treat traffic from other known remailers differently than mail from unknown addresses, remailers don't need to know about each other. If they don't know know about each other, and there is nothing on the machines which suggest they no about each other, it's difficult for a law abiding remailer operator to become inadvertantly linked to a non-lawabiding one. Of course, IANAL, so we're going to hear about 'happy fun court' not being amused (sigh...) Peter

---------- From: Eugene Leitl[SMTP:Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:17 AM To: Trei, Peter Cc: cypherpunks@lne.com; 'An Metet' Subject: RE: CNN.com on Remailers

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:

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If I were a remailer operator, I'm not sure I'd like this. Active cooperation with another remaler operator means that if he/she/it does something illegal, you could be dragged in

How is this different from the current situation? Is usage of a specific mainstream protocol sufficient protection from conspiracy charges? Joe Bob Postfixuser is hardly a remailer operator.

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on 'conspiracy' charges, regardless whether you actually had any knowledge of the the other operators nefarious activities.

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