On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:04:27 -0600, Anonymous <
nor...@breaka.net>
wrote:
>In article <
e59508b02048900a...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>
>Dave U. Random <
anon...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote:
>>
>> >> > I don't want to sound like an ingrate, but are there any nym
>> >> > servers functioning anymore that are compatable with QS 1.2.7.2
>> >> > or that can be hand rolled in the typical way and operate
>> >> > normally, the way that I am use to?
>> >
>> >>
nymph.paranoici.org or
nym.mixmin.net? Both are traditional nymservers.
>> >
>> > If he can't figure out how to set up
mixnym.net hsub, he is going
>> >to end up killing himself trying to setup an esub.
>>
>> It's all about the right tool: Omnimix makes it very easy.
>
>If you don't count the learning curve, right? It took Bubba a month
>to get out his first remailer message with OM. Does that make it a
>good remailer client?
Yes, of course, at least for those who can read the instructions and
post log excerpts to get their problems solved.
Learn to ride a bike and you no longer have to walk!
Bubba, who never explained why it took so long (he may have a job!),
also thinks so, as on 01/22/2011 he wrote:
: I could not get JBN to work on a new PC running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium,
: "unable to register an .ocx file" or something like that. I even tried
: installing it to the root directory, C:\JBN, and I also tried all of the
: downward compatibility settings in the executable properties, but to no
: avail. I asked about this problem in this group at the time, but no one
: seemed to know of any solution since JBN is long-since abandonware.
:
: So I switched to Omnimix, using my favorite old newsreader to post,
: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 (c)2002, and that setup works flawlessly.
:
: Omnimix is a really versatile program, but as some have mentioned it is not
: open source. I don't worry about technicalities like that, but rumor has
: it that some people do. All I know is that it's free and it works great.
And on 05/06/2012 he wrote:
: My advice is to use your favorite news reader/emailer with Omnimix
: to post. Works like a charm. No doubt our resident Omnimix-basher
: will pipe in complaining that Omnimix isn't "open source." Most of
: the programs on my computer aren't open source either. Is Windows
: or Microsoft Security Essentials open source, for example?
:
: JBN is abandon-ware. Omnimix is frequently updated and is amazingly
: versatile:
http://www.danner-net.de/om.htm
>
>Does a good remailer client use mixmaster 2.9 when mixmaster 3 has
>been around for 3 years? Did you know that mix 2.9 uses an openssl
>dll from 1999? Does that make a good remailer client?
Does that matter with mixmaster and that openssl dll being used for
nothing but packet creation? You don't know that omnimix uses the
latest openssl 1.0.1 version for ssl/tls connections, do you?
>
>How about vista/win7 support? People are already using win8. How many
>years has that been neglected?
Not by omnimix. In Bubba's "took me a month" article, which you
mentioned above, you also read about him successfully running omnimix
on windows 7 x64 home premium. And I saw it working perfectly with
windows xp, vista and 7, 32 as well as 64 bit, but didn't try windows
8 yet. So don't spread that incompatibility humbug.
> Hell, it still defaults to the
>\program files\ directory even though it's incompatible! Is that why
>you say it's a good remailer client?
Incompatibility? Here it works from wherever you put it. Omnimix
also was the first fully portable remailer client, leaving no traces
on your host system.
>
>OM takes 30 minutes to send a message direct to a remailer! Thirty
>minutes of repeated connect attempts. Is that good for a remailer
>client? Thirty minutes? How can any user be satisfied with that? HOW
>CAN ANY PROGRAMMER BE SATISFIED WITH THAT?
Sending through tor usually takes about 45 seconds per packet, which
means less than 6 minutes for a message in 7 copies (about 90 seconds
for message conversion and getting mx server data, followed by 4
minutes for uploading data).
And you must not forget, that it saves you a lot of time during
message creation when using a mail or news client with all the
advantages you're accustomed to (no references header copying, no
message format restrictions, which means full mime support,
attachments, html encoding), compared with the copy & paste sessions
you seem to recommend. Can't speak for the programmer, but I'm
satisfied with that.
>
>That's some code we'd ought to get a look at :) Of course, we can't.
>OM is closed source. Does closed source make a good remailer client?
Mixmaster, the part that creates your packets and thereby makes you
anonymous, is open source. You've read the code or even complied it?