Remailer stuff

[hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)]

   Sorry if I'm being dense - will someone please E-mail me and tell me
   why outgoing-only (or incoming-address-unavailable) remailers are 
   useful?

The original intention of remailers is to allow people _who already
know each other_ to do so without revealing that fact to the outside
world.  I would suggest that this use of remailers, rather than
pseudonymity, it much easier to integrate into existing mail software,
and would at this point be a good next step.  

But we don't even have encryption and signing well integrated yet, so
I'm not too hopeful today.

My criterion for a successful deployment is when the authors of a
mailer distribute encryption, signing, and remailing support as a
basic part of their packages.

True pseudonymity further reduces risk of linking physical identity to
online identity, but simply concealing communication patterns
accomplishes a lot of that already.

Eric