[41863] in Cypherpunks
Re: Don't Kill the Messenger--A New Slant on Remailers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rev. Mark Grant)
Fri Oct 20 19:46:09 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 21:45:10 +0100 (BST)
From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
> Drives are cheap. I just saw a 1.2 GB for $195 (internal, PC). I suspect
> that anyone sweating over having only a MB to spare shouldn't be running a
> remailer.
The trouble is, I can't just add a 1.2 GB disk to my ISP and use it, I
have to pay monthly for more space. In addition, it would be time-limited
to three months or so in any case, as I'm going to be travelling and
wouldn't be able to support it.
> (Not a slam against Mark, just a statement that there are certain minimal
> capabilities I'd expect to see, and not having free disk space is a serious
> problem.)
Yeah, I was mostly intending it to be a proof-of-concept, not really as an
operational remailer at this point. If it was available as a patch for
Mixmaster, say, then anyone who wanted to run such a remailer and had the
disk space available, would be able to do so.
BTW, how would the ECPA apply to, say, bouncing non-PGP messages ? From
the sound if it, doing that would be worse from a legal standpoint than
not doing it, as it would imply I was censoring the mailfeed in some
fashion.
Mark
