From: Aviel Rubin <rubin@eecs.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 06:22:20 +0800
To: coderpunks@toad.com
Subject: Announcing availability of Crowds 1.1.1 for Win95, WinNT, Unix
Message-ID: <199712022158.QAA07335@quip.eecs.umich.edu>
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Crowds: A system for anonymous web transactions

Top 10 reasons why you might be interested in Crowds

10. The price - crowds is free
9.  Easy to install - download the code, untar, and run.
    Then, simply point your browser proxy settings to
    it and you can browse anonymously
8.  Public service - by running the crowds code, you provide
    others with anonymity, even if you don't use it all the
    time.
7.  Big brother is on the net - this helps you hide
6.  It's nobody's business what you are browsing
5.  For this to work, there needs to be a large user community
4.  Portable - now works on Windows95, WindowsNT, and all
    versions of Unix we tried
3.  Win Crowds T-shirts and coffee mugs - details to come
2.  Take a stand for privacy
1.  Don't be the last person on the Internet to obtain privacy

More information, including full source code is avilable at
http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds.

- Mike Reiter
- Avi Rubin


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