Thank you for contacting the Abuse Complaint Administrator of the %RMN. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that you may have experienced as a result of inappropriate use of this system by a particular individual. The purpose of this anonymous remailer is to permit individuals including crime victims, domestic violence victims, persons in recovery, and others, such as those living under oppressive regimes, to communicate confidentially in a manner that ensures their privacy under even the most adverse conditions. Unfortunately, there will always be a very small percentage of individuals that choose to abuse the anonymity that this and similar systems worldwide afford to insult, harass, or send otherwise unwelcome email. The operator of this remailer does not condone such messages, or their content, in any way. Just as the Post Office is unable to prevent abuse of the mail system as long as there are public mailboxes into which a person can drop a letter without including a return address, this remailer cannot preemptively prevent irresponsible individuals from using this system to send inappropriate messages. However, unlike the Post Office, this remailer enables you to assure that you will not be inconvenienced by users of this remailer in the future. ========================================================================= How to block your email address from receiving email from the %RMN: To block the users of this remailer from sending email to your address, please send a message to <%RMA> containing the line DESTINATION-BLOCK anywhere in the body text of the email. You can simply reply to this message using your email program and send back this entire message for your current email address to be permanently blocked from users of the %RMN. If you wish to block additional email addresses that you may use from receiving email though this remailer, please reply to this email with a line similar to DESTINATION-BLOCK my_other_email_address@my_domain.com You must include one such line per email address that you wish to block. You can include more than one line in your reply. ========================================================================== How to block an entire domain from receiving email from the %RMN: If you are the legitimate root administrator or postmaster of a domain, you may request that all email addresses served by you domain are blocked from receiving email from this remailer . To place this block, please send the following line as "root" or "postmaster" to <%RMA> in the body text of your email: DESTINATION-BLOCK @domain_to_be_blocked.com ========================================================================== Note that there are similar remailer systems in operation on the Internet that not affiliated with the %RMN. Since the administrator of this remailer has no influence on those other systems and is likely to be unaware of many of these other systems, a destination block that you may choose to request by replying to this email is only effective for the %RMN, not for similar systems that may exist on the Internet. Many, but not all, remailers subscribe to the Remailer Abuse Block list (RAB). You can block your email address from receiving email from all remailers subscribed to this block list by visiting http://www.paracrypt.com/remailerabuse/ Should you receive unwanted email from other remailers after requesting to be place on the RAB, please contact the abuse administrator for the respective remailer. ========================================================================== How to obtain the name of the sender of an email that you received though this remailer: This remailer uses the Mixmaster anonymous remailer software. The Mixmaster software has been carefully designed to withstand attack by even the most severe regimes in which torture is a common means of inquiry and basic human rights are nonexistent. As such, it is impossible to determine the original sender of an email that has passed through this system. The administrator of this system is technically unable to determine the original sender of a message that has passed through this remailer, no matter how much the administrator may desire to do so, even if the administrator were ordered to do so by legal or extra-legal means. We regret any inconvenience this necessary safety protection may cause to some recipients of undesired emails. Remember: you can prevent future unwanted emails sent to you via this remailer by simply replying to this message. Sincerely, -- The %RMN Administrator