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Re: Changes to [email protected]



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In message <199411171606.AA18990@xtropia> you write:

>here are some other ideas to consider in addition to or instead of the
>20k limit:
> * require encryption for incoming messages.

Good idea in theory but won't work in practice. The stats generated by the
anonymous remailer show that less than 40% of the messages passing thru
are encrypted. Most people would find being forced to encrypt a huge
inconvenience. BTW everyone, when I say stats, I mean the primitive stats
generated by the remailer and are available to anyone sending email to
[email protected] with the subject being remailer-stats. Don't start
asking me if I get these stats by logging! I don't log. 

> * require that the sender, the receiver, or both be a known remailer
>   address.  at least one other remailer has to be involved.

You are talking about fortress remailers. This is currently under 
discussion. Stay tuned.

> * impose a 20k limit on message unless they are received from a known
>   remailer and sent to a known remailer.

Good in theory once again, but bad in practice. This would entice the
abusers to jeopardize several remailers instead of just one. Every
remailer that spam/proprietary-stuff goes through would be potentially at
risk also. If remailers are going to be legally jeopardized, I would 
think the impact would be less if it were one instead of many. But, there 
is also safety in numbers. Hmm...

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