Fundamental Question?

[Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl]

Anthony Ortenzi wrote:
> 
> Although I understand the need for remailers for anonymity, is it not 
> true that the whole idea of encryption (good encryption, that is) is that 
> no matter who gets the encrypted text, it really doesn't matter?  Does 
> this not mean that something like USENET is *perfect* for this?

Well, it's happened in the past. Doesn't mean Usenet is perfect for it,
since nobody wants to sift through several thousand messages a day for
messages encrypted to him/her.  Also, imagine all the traffic sent to a
remailer duplicated on overy site that carries that Usenet group...

Rob