Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread John Young
Remailers remain effective when you run your own as the first hop and accept no incoming remail. To be sure, if everyone did that no remailer would accept remails. Shhh.

Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are remailers an unsolveable paradox? We want to be able to provide the means for whistleblowers and others to communicate in a secure and anonymous fashion. Yet we need to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws will catch

RE: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Some good points, Johnny. I'm not convinced Spam and the remailers are inherently incompatible. Or at least, I'm thinking there's a sort of uncertainty principle that should work between legit remailable messages and spam. it may be a tricky business, but I suspect that the need of spammers to

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
Nomen Nescio wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are remailers an unsolveable paradox? Yes. Adios, Lemuria. Hate to see you go, but I understand completely. -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not It's just this little chromium switch, here. - TFS

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2004-09-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:30 PM 9/1/04 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: Yet we need to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws will catch up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket. You need a Bill of Rights that specifies freedom of expression, and judges that understand it. Since you appear

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
What are the possible solutions for the remailers? Make all remailers middleman only and adding the ability to opt-in for Open wireless access points. No one said you are entitled to mail anonymously from the comfort of your home/office. Stop whining. = end (of original message)

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Making sure we have robust remailing services in one shape or another and at the same time have some kind of at least indirect acceptance from legislators and also a low degree of spam flowing through are essential goals. Any legislator seeking to control how people use a

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-01 Thread Hal Finney
Spam is the least of the problems for remailers when it comes to abuse. You should be more concerned about possible liability for illegal messages. In a way, spam has actually made the remailer operator's life easier as people today are used to receiving annoying and obscene email. Ten years

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

2004-09-01 Thread Sunder
Wheee! NYC==Police State for the last week for those of you living under rocks... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country