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                                Introduction

     E-mail is as fast and casual as a voice phone call, but can be kept
like paper mail. A message can be broadcast the world over, by anyone who
comes accross your email, and one person is all it takes. Your e-mail
address is a physical identity, and it can be accessed by anyone on the
Internet. An e-mail address is a personal identity.

     On the Internet it can be easy to make an error which can be archived
by someone who may use that e-mail you sent mistakingly sent to haunt you in
the future. A message intended for a particular person may be passed along
to hundreds or even thousands of other people. Worst of all any e-mail can
be traced and monitored as E-mail and Usenet postings carry with them your
name wherever they travel. The Internet offers free expression of ideas and
isn't run by any particular government or corporation. There is a group out
there for almost any point of view. Your opinions can be sent any where in a
matter of minutes, but at the same time your name is seated prominently at
the top. The question is do you want your name plastered at the top? Is
there someone out there who is radically opposed to your ideas, maybe the
boss, spouse or government?

     It's very easy to joke about paranoia but it is a serious matter. The
opposite side to the right of freedom of speech is the right to privacy. You
have the right to free speech in theory, but can you really exercise this
right if you may face retaliation. And on the internet your free speech may
resurface later. One very easy way to get prvacy on the Internet is through
anonymity. When you don't want your name and e-mail address plastered over
your messages then you can use anonymous remailers.

     An anonymous remailer is a program that runs on a computer somewhere on
the Internet. When you send mail to the remailer address, the remailer takes
your name and address off of the mail message and forwards the mail to its
destination. The recipient gets mail that has no evidence of where it
originally came from, at least not in the headers. You might give away your
secret identity in the body of the message, but that would be your own
fault.

                           Anon.penet.fi Remailer

                            Cypherpunk Remailers

                          World Wide Web Remailers

                                Anon.penet.fi

     The Anon.penet.fi remailer has been closed permanently.

                            Cypherpunk Remailers

     Cypherpunk remailers allow you to send mail with no trace of your
identity. To use a remailer you simply have to do the following. You must
add the header Request-Remailing-To: and sending to one of the addresses
listed below. These headers must be typed in exactlly as you see them as
most remailers are case sensitive. Mail without these headers is either
rejected or delivered to the remailer administrators.

     If you cannot add the required headers, place two colons (::) on the
very first line of your message, then on the next line type
Request-Remailing-To: and the address you want to send annonymously to. Skip
a line, and then begin the message. By using this method you can send the
message through more than one remailer which will certainly ensure that it
will be anonymous. Also, remember that many remailers only allow one
recipient per message. The following are the standard Cyherpunk Remailers,
active as of 22nd September 1996.

                       Cypherpunk Anonymous Remailers

                        mixmaster@remail.obscura.com
                        remailer@cypherpunks.ca
                        mix@squirrel.owl.de
                        remailer@remailer.nl.com
                        dustman@athensnet.com
                        remailer@replay.com
                        mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu
                        winsock@c2.org
                        middleman@jpunix.com
                        remailer@huge.cajones.com
                        haystack@holy.cow.net
                        amnesia@chardos.connix.com

Here is an example of a simple remailing

> From: bob@smith.com

> To: mixmaster@remail.obscura.com

> Subject: Anonymous Mail

>

> ::

> Request-Remailing-To: receipient@destination.com (the intended recipient)

>

> Hello, this is an anonymous letter.

Here is an example of Chain remailing

> From: jo@werl.com

> To: mixmaster@remail.obscura.com

>

> ::

> Request-Remailing-To: remailer@myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu

>

> ::

> Request-Remailing-To: receipient@destination.com (the intended recipient)

>

> Hi, do you like my anonymous letter?

                           World Wide Web Remailer

     You can also use the World Wide Web for remailing. Below are links to
two web remailers.

                             Community Connexion

                    Replay and Company WWW-based Remailer

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                        Last Updated 25 December 1996
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