-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hal wrote:

Karl's idea about message havens is interesting, but I don't fully follow how it differs from the anonymous pools we discussed last year

Well, the biggest (and maybe the only) difference is mail doesn't leave the haven. It's like a post office box, you have to show up to retrieve your mail. - From my experience running remailers, posts other operators send here, general observations, and various attacks we've all suffered through, it seems like most of the problems/objections we get stem from the fact that anonymous remailers (drum roll...) actually send mail! For example: * Eli just sent a message about somebody who used his remailer to mailbomb something... *this list has been victim to the rantings of various individuals anonymous and otherwise. *somebody forwarded a ClariNet post through Scott Collins' remailer thus causing him difficulty *remailers operators have to fear some fool will remail to whitehouse.gov (or the operatros have blocked that address) *the message pool Miron runs is susceptible to mail bombing I'm not saying we should junk the anonymous remailers and replace them with message havens... it's just a suggestion that may solve a few problems we are having. Until positive reputation filters show up and everybody digitally signs their posts, etc. Digital cash payments for each message stored would greatly reduce the mailbomb problem for message havens as well as anonymous remailers. Karl Barrus klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLdL1ToOA7OpLWtYzAQEoigP+PmJtyybo24swqPD5MaDRhuvwKhhMMfn7 txaTbdVM8mzoKWgKlsB2Sw89ZO2CMl7Rijv4kgmdaxTBL278p7CuescTmRnwYACr ArlH9DSDsM9eXqVq2jLd33J2PBWhBnpn5TdOOUIJZ7B7HrT0KgaIzFv7lGhsBXQy PUh87BWOhE4= =8T8B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Karl L. Barrus: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu keyID: 5AD633 hash: D1 59 9D 48 72 E9 19 D5 3D F3 93 7E 81 B5 CC 32 "One man's mnemonic is another man's cryptography" - my compilers prof discussing file naming in public directories