Re: remailer reliability

Uu> C'punks, it seems to me that the anonymous pool idea is underutilized
 Uu> by the remailers. I suggest that a remailer variation be developed
 Uu> that posts to an anonymous pool (some appropriate obscure newsgroup)
 Uu> indicating that a message actually was sent from the final hop.

I'm not absolutely clear on what you are suggesting, but I suspect that
alt.test can probably be made to serve your purposes.  Before the
password mess on penet (which kills automagic replies, unfortunately, as
they haven't passwords), I used the autoreplies that come form various
US & foreign sites in response to alt.test postings as a good shakedown
of penet remailer reliability.  I haven't messed with alt.test in a
while so have pretty much forgotten the drill, but it was definitely
useful at the time.

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I still can't reply to M. Stirner because he still uses a illegal user name.

Double periods in a user name is a _bad_ idea. But perhaps he doesn't want
to receive any mail.

> repl: bad addresses:
> 	M..Stirner@f28.n125.z1.fidonet.org (M. Stirner) -- no mailbox in local-part (.)

> Before the
> password mess on penet (which kills automagic replies, unfortunately, as
> they haven't passwords), I used the autoreplies that come form various
> US & foreign sites in response to alt.test postings as a good shakedown
> of penet remailer reliability.

Find out the facts first. You don't need passwords to send to anXXXX users.
Autoreplies work perfectly well. It's just that *your* real return address
doesn't work!

Sorry about sounding irritated, but we have discussed your dysfunctional return
address several times, and you haven't fixed it, instead blaiming the problems
on everything else...

	Julf