1995-10-20 - Re: Don’t Kill the Messenger–A New Slant on Remailers

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From: “Rev. Mark Grant” <mark@unicorn.com>
To: “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
Message Hash: 2f3a00199202c175e4d852feba78b95ccc694dfc481187a2c8db6797ebb51c44
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-20 20:46:37 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 13:46:37 PDT

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From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 13:46:37 PDT
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Don't Kill the Messenger--A New Slant on Remailers
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On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:

> Drives are cheap. I just saw a 1.2 GB for $195 (internal, PC). I suspect
> that anyone sweating over having only a MB to spare shouldn't be running a
> remailer.

The trouble is, I can't just add a 1.2 GB disk to my ISP and use it, I 
have to pay monthly for more space. In addition, it would be time-limited 
to three months or so in any case, as I'm going to be travelling and 
wouldn't be able to support it.

> (Not a slam against Mark, just a statement that there are certain minimal
> capabilities I'd expect to see, and not having free disk space is a serious
> problem.)

Yeah, I was mostly intending it to be a proof-of-concept, not really as an
operational remailer at this point. If it was available as a patch for
Mixmaster, say, then anyone who wanted to run such a remailer and had the
disk space available, would be able to do so. 

BTW, how would the ECPA apply to, say, bouncing non-PGP messages ? From 
the sound if it, doing that would be worse from a legal standpoint than 
not doing it, as it would imply I was censoring the mailfeed in some 
fashion.

	Mark







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