The Zorn (not to be confused with Zork) wrote:
# I'm a columnist for the chicago tribune and someone has called my
# attention to the remailers on the net that allow you to construct
# the FROM: field as well as the TO: (manicmail; zoubidoo are two I've
# found). What do you know about these? Are they new? More common than
# I know? Do they pose any additional interesting problems legally,
# morally, ethically, whatever? Any sites on the web I ought to visit
# re: this?
A remailer will terminate anyone forging an existing address
as unauthorized, if they get a complaint. Well, they'll terminate
the ability to post that 'From:'.
Other than that, nothing special to watch for.
It would be easier to help you if you disgorged what your
knowledge of remailers is.
You could also check out the remailer AUPs.
To find a large list of remailers, goto newsgroup:
alt.privacy.anon-server
and look for Subject: List of reliable remailers.
If you don't have Usenet, use Deja.com to look it up.
Add 'WWW.' to the paths to locate any pages.
The most important aspects of remailers are whether they
are pseudonymous or fully anonymous, and if they're
mixmaster untraceable by anyone watching all traffic.
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Hey, want a major stalker story no one has picked up on?
Pull in the story of discredited cypherpunk
Dimitry Vulis at Orwellian.Org.
If you can make enough of a stink, you can help out
someone (a federal employee) still victimized by
the stalker. Care to be a hero?
Remailers and pseudonymous accounts are a major part
of the story's mechanics.
