1995-01-19 - Re: The Remailer Crisis

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From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-01-19 21:25:48 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 13:25:48 PST

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From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 13:25:48 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Remailer Crisis
Message-ID: <199501192123.AA29095@panix.com>
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At 01:14 AM 1/19/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:

>* I favor separating the "account that remails" from the "owner of the
>site," as I have argued in vain in the past. (Example: a willing site
>gives out or sells many accounts...each is legally separate, and each
>must be legally challenged. My longer posts dealt with this.)

I offer to pay for and operate a remailer account on any system that will
have me.

Do we have the software yet to run a remailer out of an account?

>It's time to get cracking on this crisis.

The Cable companies may come to our rescue.  Even old fuddy-duddy
Cablevision is going to be offering connections this year.  If those
connections are characterised merely as physical connections, that could
offer legal protections.

My contrib for now will be to draft an all purpose response letter to
respond to civilian and official complaints concerning remailer abuse.

DCF

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