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Re: Alternative to remailer shutdowns...
> There are hundreds of machines littered around the net that
> dont bother adding "received" headers to mail.
[ . . . ]
> Another possibility is that rather than operating remailers at all, maybe
> we should be operating non-logging smtp hosts that dont add received
> headers. Building a client to take advantage of these servers would be
> trivial (i wrote one last night, and i am not proficient in C) and it
> could be argued that the situation was not created intentionally to allow
> anonymous messages, merely to preserve disk space and bandwidth.
You really don't even need a client. RFC822 defines a method
for bouncing mail through another server. Just use
"user%[email protected]"
as the address and laxly.configured.org will send it on to
[email protected].
Wonder what would happened if the sendmail in the
(Linux|NetBSD|your favourite i386 UNIX) distributions came cofigured
to not add Received: headers by default . . . . Probably would make
diagnosing bounces hell, but it would make a lot of remailer-chain
tail ends.
Anyone tried out whitehouse.gov to see if it's adding
Received:'s or not yet? :)
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