CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers

[dmolnar]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Jim Choate wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Steve Furlong wrote:
> 
> > I'd also like discussions of real-world problems that people have found.
> > What kind of things cause you to think about shutting down your
> > remailer? Technical abuse, legal difficulties, or what?
> 
> Lawyer fees. There is no clear mechanism to fund anonymous remailers and
> their resource requirements can be potent.

By the way, reading the newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server offers a view as
to what one anon-remailing "scene" looks like these days. Lots of stories
there about experiences running remailers, dealing with ISPs, complaints
from recipients, and so on. 

-David