crosspost re remailers

[jamesd at echeque.com]

At 10:30 PM 5/14/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:
> > I'd have thought that a remailer going down
> > because of political/legal pressure would raise more of a ruckus.

At 11:02 AM 5/15/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I thought the statement that remailers are supposed to be ephemeral 
> and common was the answer. 

Exactly so:

Some nyms are valuable, most are valueless by design.  All remailers
should be valueless by design.  The penet.fi remailer design is 
unsatisfactory precisely because it penet.fi is valuable, hence a
target.  If it gets shut down a lot of people lose their nyms, 
causing much inconvenience.
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