Re: Remailer ideas (Was: Re: Latency vs. Reordering)

[sameer <sameer@c2.org>]

remail@c2.org and remailer@soda.csua.berkeley.edu both run such things
accessible via finger. Unfortunately there is a bug in the code
(written by Ray Cromwell.. not to place blame on him but to give him
credit) which does it that clobbers the list of remailers to ping and
I haven't gotten around to writing a backup mechanism so the list of
active remailers isn't killed whenever the bug happens. (Yes, the bug
*should* be fixed at the source..)

	If people could send their personal lists of remailers to
sameer@c2.org and datura@leri.org (he's working on a remailer client)
with the keys for these remailers, that *Would* be appreciated.

> 
> Re putting remailer aliveness on usenet:
> 
> What I think is a better idea was proposed here last year, and I think
> someone was doing it for a while.  It is for someone to volunteer to
> be the keeper of the remailer aliveness information.  He runs scripts
> every day to ping the remailers, keeps lists of which remailers are
> currently active, and so on.  This information is collected and put into
> a file retrievable by email or finger.  This way you need only check a
> single site to find out which remailers are up, and you don't have the
> usenet waste of sending stuff all over the world that only a few people
> are interested in (yes, I know usenet does this already, but it won't
> forever).
> 
> Just like people set up web sites that point to interesting resources,
> some people will (and perhaps are already) run sites which point to good
> remailers.  This is just as useful a service as running a remailer, and
> a good deal less controversial.  This seems like a good solution to the
> problem of finding running remailers.
> 
> Hal
> 


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