[82758] in Cypherpunks
Re: random remailer forwarding (Was: Jeff's Side of the Story.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Thu Jul 3 10:26:22 1997
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 09:54:30 -0400 (edt)
From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970702174350.0311cbf4@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bill Stewart 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.....
So there's a few problems still, sheeeeeeshk. Actually, if you haven't
heard anything from a remailer for a while, you'd probably drop it from
your calculations. I'd also assume that the mailers participating in this
random forwarding system were at least somewhat stable.. :-)
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