Re: An alternative to remailer shutdowns

[Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>]

On Tue, 21 May 1996, Ben Holiday wrote:

> After pondering a bit it seems to me that the "knock knock" remailer
> approach (only send anon-mail if the recipient agrees to receive it) could
> be made feasable pretty easily.
> 
> Rather than hold the mail while waiting for a consent to release, you
> could simply encrypt the peice of mail with a symetric algorythm on its
> final hop, and send the encrypted mail to the recipient. 

Interesting idea, but anything requiring specific software on the user's
end is a losing proposition IMO. 

remailer-operators@c2.org removed cuz I ain't one.

-rich