Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!

>alt.anonymous.messages is not an ideal message pool-- it is a hack.
>(Granted, it *is* a really cool, clever, and practically useful hack.)

I agree that alt.anonymous.messages is not perfect. But if you
download all articles and don't post to alt.anonymous.messages
without using a remailer, the only real threat are denial of
service attacks with cancel messages etc.

>If folks have better ideas for how to achieve really good recipient
>anonymity, I hope they'll speak up!

I think a DC+ net would achieve the same degree of anonymity more
efficiently. (It's not trivial to estimate the traffic caused by
a remailer net as proposed by Ian, so I may be wrong there.)

On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Ulf Moeller wrote:

> >alt.anonymous.messages is not an ideal message pool-- it is a hack.
> >(Granted, it *is* a really cool, clever, and practically useful hack.)
> 
> I agree that alt.anonymous.messages is not perfect. But if you
> download all articles and don't post to alt.anonymous.messages
> without using a remailer, the only real threat are denial of
> service attacks with cancel messages etc.

You could also read alt.anonymous.messages by pointing The Anonymizer at
AltaVista. Their news feed expires pretty quick, but it's probably just as
fast and reliable as yours, if not better.

-rich