In article <20070420112637.7kS0ydAK7O10@anonymous.poster>
admin <admin@eelbash.yi.org> wrote:
>
> One more comment and I'll drop the matter. I haven't seen the remailer
> showing up in any stats. I hope that this is merely an oversight, and
> that remops won't let personal pique make them block a useful remailer.
>
> That aren't too many last-hop remailers, and very few that allow full
> 'from' headers; so do the right thing and allow this fine new remailer
> to contribute to freedom of anonymous speech.
>

First of all, the only use cpunk remailers have these days is for nym
reply blocks. That is because of major anonymity problems that were
discovered and led to the writing of the type 2 mixmaster protocol.

Unfortunately, as you've hacked together your own type 1 remailer that
doesn't support the type 1 protocol but merely a tiny little subset of
it, your remailer can't even be used properly in a reply block.

While you say that you will remix messages to *other* remailers,
that's sort of pointless when they can't remix messages to you. If
someone uses you in a chain of cpunk remailers there will be anonymity
problems between the middle remailer and you, as the middle remailer
won't be able to remix to you.

In short, your remailer won't actually be providing any anonymity at
all.

Second of all, as has been pointed out before, your mail server seems
to drop connections halfway through the communication. Sometimes it
will be before the mail from command, sometimes in the rcpt to,
sometimes as you're transferring the data...I have no idea why. It
provides no error message, it just terminates the connection.

When your remailer actually supports the type 1 protocol or the type 2
protocol, and when your remailer actually accepts mail via SMTP then
maybe you'll find that a few people add you.

But when you don't support either of the remailer protocols properly,
and can't even accept mail via SMTP, why on earth would any
responsible remailer operator add a non-working remailer to stats?
You can't be added to mixmaster stats because you're not a mixmaster
remailer, and you can't be added to cpunk stats because you're not a
cpunk remailer.

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