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Remailer listings/strategy
This may have been hashed out in a previous incarnation, but on the
subject of remailers and their availability, why not just have each one
broadcast a message of it's availability periodically (hourly? every 4
hours?) on, say, the Cypherpunks mailing list. Then, each remailer could
also listen in, read in who's up, and if it doesn't hear from a remailer
within some period of time (or some number of scheduled broadcasts), assume
that it's down until it hears from that system again. This would also allow
individuals to maintain personal listings of available remailers, as well,
and automate the process of keeping track of what remailers are
up/down/available.
The additional traffic wouldn't seem to be _too_ much of a burden,
those individuals who didn't want the broadcasts cluttering up their
mailboxes could filter them out, and doesn't require massive effort or
changes to implement (ie, new newsgroups, etc).
What blazingly obvious thing am I missing here, or does it make too
much sense to work? :-)
Dave Merriman
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