Remailer Tearline Conventions
anonymous at extropia.wimsey.com
anonymous at extropia.wimsey.com
Thu Feb 3 17:49:44 PST 1994
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Uu> From: edgar at spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank)
Uu> Someone (not me) asked about remailer tearline conventions to
Uu> eliminate automatic sigs:
Uu> I'm the one who brought this up "months ago" and the short answer to
Uu> your question is "no."
Uu> Hall Remailer <nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Uu> added a "cut line" of
Uu> --ignore--
Uu> At the time I brought this up, the attitude of most remailer operators
Uu> (Chael Hall and Miron Cuperman notably excepted) was that anyone who
Uu> couldn't figure out how and remember to turn off their auto sig didn't
Uu> deserve any privacy.
An astonishing bit of Internet provincial fuckheadedness, I must say!
When one considers that there are _many_ other nets that gate into
Internet these days and innumerable store-and-forward host systems whose
message handling processes are _completely_ beyond the control of the
end user (even smug Cypherpunk geniuses), this attitude mystifies me.
Uu> I recommend that you always use the wimsey (extropia) remailer as the
Uu> first (or only) leg of a remailer chain. It is also the only
Uu> Cypherpunks remailer outside the USA (it's in Canada) which will make
Uu> tracing msgs a little more difficult for USA authorities.
That remail at extropia.wimsey.com is in Canada specifically makes
communications with it fair game for NSA interception, however.
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