[82738] in Cypherpunks
random remailer forwarding (Was: Jeff's Side of the Story.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Jul 3 00:24:05 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 17:43:50 -0700
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970702152915.27206B-100000@ece>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
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At 03:32 PM 7/2/97 -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote:
>Well, to make the remailers more intelligent, have them count incoming
>mail from the list of remailers participating in the system. (either that
>or a rate) when one remailer seems to be sending much more mail than the
>others (which shouldn't happen if all remailers are randomly distributing
>the mail to each other) you automatically do the random forward to
>another remailer.
That's a way to guarantee that the remailers that aren't working
get more of the traffic.....
:-)
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