From: "John A. Perry" <perry@jpunix.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 02:31:58 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Changes to remailer@jpunix.com
In-Reply-To: <co-okyczBG$R073yn@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199411181030.EAA00389@jpunix.com>
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In message <co-okyczBG$R073yn@netcom.com> you write:
>But (except for monitoring messages going into and out of the remailer,
>or operator logging) how is anyone to know which remailers were involved
>in a chain?  Isn't this one of the things that chaining is supposed to
>prevent?  

That is exactly what chaining is supposed to prevent.

>A more accurate objection might be that if spam/proprietary data is
>chained through remailers, then EVERY remailer is at risk.  

This is more correct than my previous statement. ALL remailers would be 
at risk.

>BTW, I think your safeguards (which I am _not_ objecting to) only make
>it a little bit harder to use your remailer to post stolen code or
>whatever.  Someone  could easily break the posts up into pieces and
>chain them through your remailer, perhaps through different chains as
>well, e.g.:

I agree that it only makes it a little harder. I never meant it as a 
preventative and it never will be. But if the remailer is going to be 
used to send out large amounts of data, i.e. source code and spam, I 
wanted to increase the level of difficulty on the part of the individual 
committing the act.

>Or are you going to block posts from remailers that forward spam to you?
>(A cure worse than the disease, IMHO).

I have no intention of blocking the other remailers.

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