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Thank you for contacting <%CA>. The administrator will |
Thank you for contacting the Abuse Complaint Administrator |
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read your message and take appropriate action as soon as possible. |
of the %RMN. |
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This system is a remailer which automatically anonymizes and forwards |
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that you may have |
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e-mail. As such it serves an important purpose for many of its users |
experienced as a result of inappropriate use of this system by a |
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who could not otherwise express themselves freely, or who need to |
particular individual. |
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discuss sensitive personal topics. |
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The purpose of this anonymous remailer is to permit individuals |
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Of course, it is not intended to annoy or harass. In case you have |
including crime victims, domestic violence victims, persons in recovery, |
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received an unwanted message, the remailer offers a method to prevent |
and others, such as those living under oppressive regimes, to |
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this from happening again. |
communicate confidentially in a manner that ensures their privacy under |
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even the most adverse conditions. Unfortunately, there will always be a |
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To block the remailer from sending mail to your address, please send |
very small percentage of individuals that choose to abuse the anonymity |
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a message containing the line |
that this and similar systems worldwide afford to insult, harass, or |
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send otherwise unwelcome email. |
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The operator of this remailer does not condone such messages, or their |
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content, in any way. |
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Just as the Post Office is unable to prevent abuse of the mail system as |
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long as there are public mailboxes into which a person can drop a letter |
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without including a return address, this remailer cannot preemptively |
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prevent irresponsible individuals from using this system to send |
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inappropriate messages. However, unlike the Post Office, this remailer |
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enables you to assure that you will not be inconvenienced by users of |
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this remailer in the future. |
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How to block your email address from receiving email from the |
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To block the users of this remailer from sending email to your address, |
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please send a message to <%RMA> |
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containing the line |
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DESTINATION-BLOCK |
DESTINATION-BLOCK |
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to <%RMA>. You can simply hit `reply' and send back |
anywhere in the body text of the email. You can simply reply to this |
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this entire message. |
message using your email program and send back this entire message for |
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your current email address to be permanently blocked from users of the |
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%RMN. |
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Remailer Policy: |
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If you wish to block additional email addresses that you may use from |
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receiving email though this remailer, please reply to this email with a |
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The remailer administrator will take steps to prevent use of the |
line similar to |
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remailer for any illegal purpose. |
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DESTINATION-BLOCK my_other_email_address@my_domain.com |
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The remailer is intended for communicating anonymously, not for |
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sending unsolicited commercial mail (UCE or spam). If you ever receive |
You must include one such line per email address that you wish to block. |
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UCE from the remailer, the remailer administrator would appreciate a |
You can include more than one line in your reply. |
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complete copy of the message in order to prevent it in the future. UCE |
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will typically contain a contact address or telephone number, which is |
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sufficient to identify the sender and -- where applicable -- take |
How to block an entire domain from receiving email from the |
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legal action against the originator. |
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If you are the legitimate root administrator or postmaster of a domain, |
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More information about blocking addresses: |
you may request that all email addresses served by you domain are |
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blocked from receiving email from this remailer . To place this block, |
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please send the following line as "root" or "postmaster" to |
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If you wish to block other addresses you can do so by including one |
<%RMA> in the body text of your email: |
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line of the type "destination-block user@domain" for each address. |
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DESTINATION-BLOCK @domain_to_be_blocked.com |
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As a postmaster, you can block anonymous mail to your entire domain. |
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To do so, please use the line "destination-block @your-domain.com". |
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Note that there are similar remailer systems in operation on the |
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If you do not want to read anonymous messages in mailing lists or |
Internet that not affiliated with the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer. |
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newsgroups, please consult the manual of your mail reading program. |
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The software will allow you to use `filters' or `kill files' to |
Since the administrator of this remailer has no influence on those other |
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avoid being bothered by messages you do not want to read. |
systems and is likely to be unaware of many of these other systems, a |
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destination block that you may choose to request by replying to this |
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email is only effective for the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer, |
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Purpose of Anonymous Remailers: |
not for similar systems that may exist on the Internet. |
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It is easy to store electronic mail for a long time and to search huge |
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amounts of data for information about people when they do not expect |
How to obtain the name of the sender of an email that you received |
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it. Thus, the information society may pose a hitherto unknown threat |
though this remailer: |
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to everybody's privacy. In totalitarian regimes sending critical |
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messages may even cause a threat to the senders' lives if their |
This remailer uses the Mixmaster anonymous remailer software. The |
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identity ever becomes known. |
Mixmaster software has been carefully designed to withstand attack by |
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even the most severe regimes in which torture is a common means of |
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For that reason, anonymous remailers have been developed. Remailers |
inquiry and basic human rights are nonexistent. As such, it is |
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use cryptographic methods to conceal the origin of messages. Each |
impossible to determine the original sender of an email that has passed |
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message is sent through a network of anonymizing servers so that not |
through this system. |
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even the remailer administrators have any information about the origin |
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of the message. It is impossible for us to determine the original |
The administrator of this system is technically unable to determine the |
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sender of any message. Please don't ask, because we don't know either. |
original sender of a message that has passed through this remailer, no |
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matter how much the administrator may desire to do so, even if the |
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More information is available from the following URLs: |
administrator were ordered to do so by legal or extra-legal means. We |
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regret any inconvenience this necessary safety protection may cause to |
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some recipients of undesired emails. |
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Technical information about untraceability: |
Remember: you can prevent future unwanted emails sent to you via this |
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http://www.obscura.com/~loki/remailer/remailer-essay.html |
remailer by simply replying to this message. |
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http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/chaum-acm-1981.html |
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Legal information about online anonymity: |
Sincerely, |
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http://www.epic.org/free_speech/mcintyre.html |
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http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm |
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Please do not hesitate to contact the remailer administrator again |
-- The %RMN Administrator |
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whenever a problem occurs or you have any questions. |
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