Monty, Just so you know that the less-than-100-percent message rate doesn't necessarily mean that messages are getting lost: Last update: Tue 30 Sep 97 15:09:32 EDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- bureau42 remailer@bureau42.ml.org -----------+ 3:31:14 100.00% It's a fluke; I just happened to look at this list (by fingering rlist@anon.lcs.mit.edu) while I'd been on the net for a while, and so no messages were in transit. Mere seconds later, the EFGA list showed my uptime as 99.97% and Raph's list showed a meager 94.08% (it looks like somewhere, about three days ago, messages got dropped somehwere). On balance, the remailer network is rather more reliable than you seem to give it credit for. (Side note: the more reliable remailers, with bureau42 being a notable exception :) tend to be faster too. The top remailers as of _right_now_ all have reliability above 99.90% and delay times less than twenty-five minutes. Chain a few of those together and your message will almost certainly arrive in less than an hour. Few would argue that that's an unacceptable delay. Messages routinely take longer than that to be delivered, due to random nameserver burps and other "normal" factors.) dave (bureau42 gearhead)