[80738] in Cypherpunks
Re: Nym Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Tue May 27 00:31:23 1997
To: alan@ctrl-alt-del.com (Alan Olsen)
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 16:19:25 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970526005335.03d3ec60@mail.teleport.com> from "Alan Olsen" at May 26, 97 00:53:35 am
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Alan Olsen wrote:
>
> As well as active Cypherpunks mirrors, have there been many new nym servers
> coming into existance? Most of them seem to have been dying on the vine.
>
> Info on new or existing nym servers appreciated. (I am not certain in Raph
> has been covering them on the remailer list.)
>
As far as I understand, nym servers die because their maintainers get
tired of the huge amount of mass mailings, mailbombings and complaints
that these servers generate. Often enough they simply do not have the
bandwidth or CPU resources to maintain them.
- Igor.
