Cheshire seen as a threat to remailer system
by not following rules of "safety."

He was blocking all remailers which did not
filter. Quite a step for someone who is a
middleman, and not an exit remailer. I guess
he learned arrogance at the knee of his mentor,
the infamous frog.

"Since it would be easy to dilute this community with rogue remailers we all
need to adher to basic principles to which a true remop should comply.
Failure to do so should be considered reason for higher alert amongst other
remops and end users."
  phantom@nym.alias.net
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[Remops] Cheshire conduct 

Phantom phantom@nym.alias.net 
Thu May 15 09:45:07 2003 

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Although I feel with Cheshire on some issues/arguments (should his
intentions be honest - but I'm not convinced they are) this remop's action
puzzles me.

I don't intend to be too neerdy paranoid here, but if someone would like to
introduce problems in the remailer network he might be doing exactly some
of the things this remop is doing right now.

Introducing DoS in practise in the network can have devistating effect on
the trust in the network.

All those cries for censorship sounds really alarming and non-remop-like.

If I look at the thread on "cheshire blocking non filtering.." (just one
example - there have been others too) it contains some really gruesome
posts by this remop.

And sure enough others have commented on that too so it doesn't get past
unnoticed.

However how are the rest of the community going to act against this
anti-traditional-remailer-attitute this remop is trying to lobby into the
community?

We should all bear in mind that the remop community is very small and it is
very easy to keep track on almost every one of the individual remops should
TLAs want to. You should also understand that there are cooperations
between agencies in different countries as well as ISPs and telecoms - this
has been going on for many years. So basically anyone running a remailer
service would get enumerated by the TLAs should they simply have it on
their agenda. And I would be surprised if they don't.

Since it would be easy to dilute this community with rogue remailers we all
need to adher to basic principles to which a true remop should comply.
Failure to do so should be considered reason for higher alert amongst other
remops and end users.

I would like to advice cheshire admin to rethink his strategy. You are
welcome to discuss any and all techniques related to the remailer services
amongst other remailer operators, users and supporters but if you introduce
one sided filtering, blocking and other privacy intrusive or censoring
actions on your end and and feel you have to do this in order to be in
"business" I too think you should consider doing something else with your
spare time.

cheers


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