From: cactus@seabsd.hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 94 19:06:13 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Broadcasts and the Rendezvous Problem
Message-ID: <199412120311.WAA27554@bb.hks.net>
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In article <v01510103ab114c09dd73@[192.0.2.1]>,
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>Which brings us back to the news -> mail gateway. There has to be a better
>way.

I don't see a problem.  Broadly put, news is broadcast e-mail.  There are
many sites which in fact do not distinguish between the two, the most
notable of which is CMU's Andrew Message System:  the admins of such
systems believe the "experiment" to be an all-around success.

If you want message A to get from site B to site C without a clear
trail, you've got to broadcast.  It's that simple.  It isn't a very big
problem that site B put something into the flow, so mail to news isn't
a weak point: an article can be injected at the remailer's site without
compromising the channel to traffic analysis.
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