Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 4 Sep 2004 at 21:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: The ratio of remailer use to abuse is painfully low because there's no way to actually communicate. You can broadcast but not recieve, because no system exists to receive mail psuedononymously. This is not communication. Remailer use is

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-06 Thread Ben Laurie
Tyler Durden wrote: The hascash idea is OK, and obviously will work (as of now...the dividing line between human and machine is clearly not static, and smarter spam operations will start doing some segmentation analysis and then find it worthwhile to pay up). But the kind of person that may

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-06 Thread nobody
This is a Type III anonymous message, sent to you by the Mixminion server at mercurio.mixmaster.it. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-06 Thread Ben Laurie
Tyler Durden wrote: The hascash idea is OK, and obviously will work (as of now...the dividing line between human and machine is clearly not static, and smarter spam operations will start doing some segmentation analysis and then find it worthwhile to pay up). But the kind of person that may

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-05 Thread nobody
This is a Type III anonymous message, sent to you by the Mixminion server at mercurio.mixmaster.it. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
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 up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket. The ratio of remailer use to

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-04 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:50:14PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: Let's take our shining example of truth and freedom, the whistle-blower. When they send out mail to the media or whomever, one of two things happens: they see the story published or they don't. If not, there's no idea why: was it

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-04 Thread Nomen Nescio
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 up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket. The ratio of remailer use to

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

2004-09-04 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:50:14PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: Let's take our shining example of truth and freedom, the whistle-blower. When they send out mail to the media or whomever, one of two things happens: they see the story published or they don't. If not, there's no idea why: was it

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: 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 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
, but I agree with your essential point that it needs looking into. -TD From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remailers an unsolveable paradox? Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:30:01 +0200 (CEST) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are remailers an unsolveable paradox

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

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