RE: robo remailerRE: robo remailer

nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote:

> Is the remailer "robo@c2.org" a PGP remailer?
> In the remailer-list, it is not listed as such and yet it has a
> public PGP key (dated 5/7/95)?  Also, is it robo or ROBO, or 
> doesn't the case matter?

From what I heard last week, the remailer operator's account at
c2.org expired and was cancelled, thus the remailer is down.
Previously, it had been a full-fledged cypherpunk-type remailer,
with Type II (Mixmaster) capabilities, to boot.

Such are the uncertainties of using remailers.  What would have been
nice, of course, would have been for Sameer (sameer@c2.org), or
whoever runs Community Conexxion, to post a bulletin here giving
everyone a few days' notice before pulling the plug on this
remailer.  Undoubtedly, people are still chaining through it and
wondering why their messages/posts are not showing up.

NOTE:  People with anon reply blocks from alpha.c2.org that chained
through robo need to replace them, or risk lost messages!

> Such are the uncertainties of using remailers.  What would have been
> nice, of course, would have been for Sameer (sameer@c2.org), or
> whoever runs Community Conexxion, to post a bulletin here giving
> everyone a few days' notice before pulling the plug on this
> remailer.  Undoubtedly, people are still chaining through it and
> wondering why their messages/posts are not showing up.
> 

	Account cancellations are automated. The account holder is
notified if pending deactivation 14, 7, and 3 days before the account
is deactivated. It is the remailer-operator's responsibility to notify
the world that the remailer will be going down. It is not my
responsibility to keep track of which remailers are running on c2.org
and which aren't.

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