NODE fe2bbe09frequency of remailer use?
Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>Sun, 10 Mar 1996 05:44:15 +0800
I would be very grateful for pointers to data concerning the number of
messages that pass through remailers. (Not anon.penet.fi -- real
remailers.) I am currently in a conversation with a journalist who should
know better, but claims that secure anonymous remailers are never used by
anyone -- just a curiosity.
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NODE 4d8f9ac7Re: frequency of remailer use?
"Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>Sun, 10 Mar 1996 06:50:06 +0800
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On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Michael Froomkin wrote:
> I would be very grateful for pointers to data concerning the number of
> messages that pass through remailers. (Not anon.penet.fi -- real
> remailers.) I am currently in a conversation with a journalist who should
> know better, but claims that secure anonymous remailers are never used by
> anyone -- just a curiosity.
For most remailers, you can get the usage statistics by sending a message
to the remailer with the subject line "remailer-stats."
- --Mark
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NODE b40fe4e1Re: frequency of remailer use?
Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:10:04 +0800
Mark M. wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Michael Froomkin wrote:
>
> > I would be very grateful for pointers to data concerning the number of
> > messages that pass through remailers. (Not anon.penet.fi -- real
> > remailers.) I am currently in a conversation with a journalist who should
> > know better, but claims that secure anonymous remailers are never used by
> > anyone -- just a curiosity.
>
> For most remailers, you can get the usage statistics by sending a message
> to the remailer with the subject line "remailer-stats."
Problem is that chaining interferes with this.
A better way is to skin certain types of newsgroup headers over a period of
time (a week or two) for messages sent from remailers. It will also give
some stats as to what kinds of topics to people prefer anonymity.
It's also rather interesting to see how much remailer traffic is used for
posting rants/erotica/politically unpopular deas/heresies/criticism/
whistleblowing [I put these in the same category because they are related]
and how many use them for the sake of just being anonymous [a regular
participant who signs with an anonymous id/pgp-key but isn't necessarally
posting something that requires anonyimity... hard to distinguish from first
one though].
--Rob