From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:13:50 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: anonymous remailers
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c.musselman@internetmci.com (Charley Musselman) writes:

> C'punks --
> 	When I told a friend about the alt.drugs.pot cultivation newsgroup
> and suggested that he use an anonymous remailer to post to the group,
> he laughed and said, "Who do you suppose runs the remailers?  ATF,
> FBI, DEA, that's who!"  Gee, it makes sense to this paranoid.  Does
> anyone know the answer?  Specifically, how can we choose a trusted
> remailer?

Even if the feds are not directtly involved, the so-called "cypher punk"
remailers are run by people who should not be trusted.  Check out their
remailer-operators list: it's full of announcements that some specific
person posted something via the remailer that the operator didn't like.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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