From: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 16:41:28 PST
To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Remailer Update
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Eric Hughes wrote:

> We managed to catch the problem before it went on for too long.
> I took everyone off the list after backing it up and left only me
> and Hugh on it, so most of the problem didn't go to the list.
> What happened was that the sendmails started spawning faster
> and faster.  I got a megabyte and a half of repeated mail before
> we squished everything.

I'm glad you caught the problem.  I'd hate to see what would have
happened if it had gone on for too long.  :)

My remailer was off-line from midnite to about 18:00 hours (eastern
time) today.  I took it off-line so I could handle the toad.com mail
bomb.  I have restored the remailer and FAQ server to normal operation. 
About 15 messages piled up in the queue during this time, and I sent
them out about an hour ago.  Let me know if there were any problems. 
Also, let me know your opinions on overall functionability of the
remailer, and any bugs/problems.

To everyone who requested the source code, sorry I haven't gotten to it
yet.  I will...

P.S. The remailer info I maintain at mg5n+remailers@andrew.cmu.edu has
gotten quite popular.  When I first set it up, I got at most 2-3
requests a day.  The last couple of days I have been getting 10 to 15
remailer-info requests a day.  I wonder where they're coming from...I
guess some non-cypherpunks groups have gotten on the anonymnity
bandwagon.  Wow... there goes another one.  (I have it display a message
on my screen whenever a request goes thru.)