CNN.com on Remailers

[Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer]

> One solution, which I've long advocated, is for the remailer to drop 
> mail which has an unencrypted body after it's applied it's decryption 
> key.
> 
> Provided this is an announced policy, substantially increases the
> protection of the mail and the remop. It does mean that only people
> capable of using encryption can receive mail via the remailer, but   
> that's probably a *good* thing.

No, that is a terrible idea. It totally destroys the usefulness of 
remailers on Usenet and mailing lists.

"Make your system so hard to use that no one uses it. That way, no one 
will abuse it!"

Pshaw.