Re: anon-HTTP server w/o root access

[Bass Wastelan <bass@fc.net>]

> someone writes:
> $ an anon-http proxy server would probably consume much more in 
> $ the way of network resources than a remailer, which will  
> $ likely lead to many being shutdown once discovered by the sysadmins  
> 
> That might be somewhat less true on a commercial provider than on an 
> educational or corporate provider, but in any case a WWW anon-server would be
> seen as a much larger potential security hole than a remailer. A couple of
> months ago a "friendly" outsider gained unauthorized access to user files
> here via our Web server, and reported it to the sysadmins. I would have been
> mighty nervous if I'd been offering anon WWW access to the world.

I'd be happy to setup a machine at my providers site do run
a test of anonymized httpd.  From what I understand they wouldn't
mind helping either.

Within the next 6 months, there probably will be a number
of for pay anonymizer services availible on the net.  It just
makes too much sense for it to not happen.