TOR is an acronym for the onion router.   In a nutshell  it uses multiple
routers to hide the originating IP address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29    wiki entry.
Onion routers are fairly slow.

Not sure why anyone would send spam about TOR, doesn't make much sense.

Mike


On 9/6/07, Andy Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> BTW, I also got a spam message with an evil link exhorting me to
> download Tor.  What can anyone tell me about Tor itself?
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Andy
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