From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:12:25 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: remailers/kiddie porn
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>"The Internet is like heaven for the pedophile," said Toby Tyler, 
>a United States police officer who lectures at the FBI Academy on child abuse. 
...
>However computer experts agree the existence of just one re-mailing system
in a country with more lax laws is enough for the global distribution of child
>pornography on the Internet. 
>Tyler said the most widely used re-mailing system currently operates from
Finland, through which about 99 percent of all child pornography with
untraceable
>address codes passes. 

Classic governmental statistics abuse.  Given that probably far over 99% 
of all untraceable remailer return addresses are on Penet,
it's no surprise that 99% of all material with untraceable
destination addresses goes through there...
The largest userid number I've seen on Penet was about 500,000,
and I doubt there are 5000 addresses on nymservers or
reply-block users.

#			Thanks;  Bill
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