Re: Communications Policy

[Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>]

Tim May writes:

> This was well-debated about a month or so back.

Ooops. Sorry. Must have been just before I joined the list. Always
putting my foot in the wrong place...

> In a note I wrote back then, which did not name the particular site
> involved, I reported that after sending a piece of "anonymous" mail, I
> got a letter of "support" for my position from the remailer operator!

Urgh!

> After I mentioned this to the Cypherpunks list, it came out that other
> sites were also keeping various forms of archives (for some or all of
> the reasons listed above).

Double urgh!

> Anyway, such human-operated remailers, running on UNIX boxes in
> unsecure conditions, have many nonideal characteristics.

Agree.

	Julf