From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 02:00:28 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Broadcasts - Bandwidth Problem ?
Message-ID: <199412121005.FAA16675@bb.hks.net>
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Jonathan Rochkind writes:
> Many people seemed to think that a newsgroup for this sort of a thing was a
> waste of bandwith.  I don't really agree, and think that the bandwith is
> neccesary for a distributed method of making the remailer net more robust
> to remailers popping into and out of existence.

In case the bandwidth on {alt.anonymous, alt.anonymous.messages} started to
bother news admins, we could actively encourage them to put the groups on
very short expiration periods, i.e. articles might expire after only a day.
Assuming people are using automated sniffers to collect their anonymous mail,
this shouldn't present any obstacle to the use of the groups as message pools.
Keeping the ciphertext around in public for a shorter time sounds like a
Good Thing (tm), anyway. 
I agree that bandwidth seems essential to foiling traffic analysis.

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server  "We've got computers, 
we're tapping phone lines; I know that that ain't allowed" --Talking Heads

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