Unless, of course, the list were gatewayed to Usenet or a web site (which I believe it is). --Declan At 19:40 5/22/2000 +0000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > > I haven't seen any cypherpunks list traffic for a couple days. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears to be up, have the other > > CDR nodes stopped sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? > >This is a technique which is used to establish nym identities. Mail is >selectively blocked to subsets of subscribers in order to see which nyms >then re-submit their postings, assuming they were lost in the (conveniently) >unreliable remailer network. > >And it worked, too. Note that "Eric Cordian" sent three copies of >his childsex message. He can now be assumed to be among the subset of >subscribers who had their subscriptions temporarily blocked. By applying >this technique to different subsets, at intervals over a long period of >time, a close correlation can be established between anonymous posters >and their true names.
