Remailer Unreliability

[anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com]

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 18:00 EST
> From: nobody at myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Anonymous)
> 
> What if it was possible to specify an alternate remailer?  In the case that
> a remailer went down, you could specify an alternate.  For example:

  Well, *I* think it is a good idea.  But how does remailer1 know that
remailer2 is both a remailer and down?

  Noyb