On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:42:49 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>It seems the frog is back

the frogman ran a great remailer while it lasted . . . "Frog is back":
>Path:...!news.bananasplit.info!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news
>From: Max Mustermann <anonymous@remail.amessage.info>
>Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above.
> It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software.
> Please report problems or inappropriate use to the
> remailer administrator at <support@mail.amessage.info>.
>Subject: Frog is back
>Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
>Message-ID: <dc663333d9b68516ac3f49601a07f1ec@remail.amessage.info>
>Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:31:40 +0200
>Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com
>Organization: mail2news@dizum.com
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>After securing a medal for France in the '2004 olympics, the
>flamboyant Frog-Admin is back from Athens to the remailer business.
>Featuring stats and keyrings, a mail2news, and 2, no, 3 remailers:
>Frog: frogremailer@frogadmin.yi.org (France)
>Toro: tororemailer@toroadmin.yi.org (Spain)
>Shark: sharkremailer@sharkadmin.yi.org (Maldives)
>Rejoice...
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previously "Frog is back" . . .
>Message-ID: <7YUG1I6U37798.1121064815@Gilgamesh-frog.org>
>From: Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Frog-Admin)
>Subject: Frog is back
>Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
>Organization: Happy Lobster & Partners
>X-Comment: In Case of Emergency, Flush the Toilet
>X-Mailer: JackB.Nymble Version 2.1
>Comments: This message probably did not originate from the above address.
> It was automatically remailed by one or more anonymous mail services.
> You should NEVER trust ANY address on Usenet ANYWAYS: use PGP !!!
> Get information about complaints from the URL below
>X-Remailer-Contact: http://80.65.224.85/ In case my abuse address is unreachable: It is because it has been flooded by <mgg@uiuc.edu>, please contact <abuse@uiuc.edu>
>Date: 26 Jun 2003 02:42:39 +0200
>Lines: 78
>X-Mail2News-Contact: http://80.65.224.85/
>Path: news...!noc.nerim.net!Gilgamesh-frogadmin.yi.org!not-for-mail
>Xref: news.freenet.de alt.privacy.anon-server:214814
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>Thanks to all those who dropped me a note for my 50th birthday.
>A *special* thank to the person who tipped me about
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrnbe7kcb.pfp.lusenet-200202%40valiant.palfrader.org&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
>The reference of such hard evidence will go where it belongs.
>The party took place in Alsace, and after all those days eating and drinking I am considering a strict diet for the next fortnight.
>Computer was not happy on its own (I did not know that "feelings" were implemented in Win2K) and stalled a few days after I left, for unknown reasons (there is a heat wave in western europe). I had decided to enjoy my party, and I had stayed away from any computer, so that I was not aware of any problem until I came back.
>I rebooted Gilgamesh Monday evening, and the various subsystems are now all functional (remailer, stats/keyrings, m2news, Thesaurus, MetaStats, Miscellaneous ...)
>(I did my homework of updating according to news)
>Enjoy
>WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
>Frog Remailer WWW Page:
>index
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/
>Main with stats
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Main.html
>Finger Capabilities
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Finger.html
>All Pingers' Index
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Pingers/
>MetaStats
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/MetaStats/
>Browse into Frog Remailer Load Graphs
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/Browse.html
>DownLoads
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/MyDownLoad.html
>Modify Potatoware
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/PotatoX_Gen.html
>Thesaurus (remailer-xxx Data & Analysis)
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Thesaurus/
>Politiques FR
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Pol_FR.html
>Policies EN
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Pol_EN.html
>Trash
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Trash/
>Smile
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Sonrisas/
>Client Configurations for LES Dummies
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Configs/
>Technical Data
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Tek/
>WebToNews:
> https://frogadmin.yi.org/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe
>Frog's Support for News
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/News/
>Remailer Description RFC
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/RFC/
>Web Anonymous Remailer Interface (Mail/News)
> https://frogadmin.yi.org/WARI/
>Miscellaneous Functions
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/MISC/
>JBN2 QuickStart
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Configs/JBN2_Quick.html
>Survival Kit
> posted daily to APAS
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/SurvivalKit.txt
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earlier that same month "Frog Remailer Closed Forever" . . .
>Path: news...!anon.lcs.mit.edu!nym.alias.net!mail2news-x3!mail2news-x2!mail2news
>From: Anonymous <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
>Author-Address: nobody <AT> bikikii <DOT> ath <DOT> cx
>Date: 18 Jun 2003 10:05:40 -0000
>Message-ID: <ZOTUSKEE37790.2122685185@anonymous.poster>
>Subject: Frog Remailer Closed Forever
>Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.usenet.kooks
>X-Comment: In Case of Emergency, Flush the Toilet
>Comments: This message did not originate from the address above.
> It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software.
> Please report problems or inappropriate use to the
> remailer administrator at <abuse@bikikii.ath.cx>
>Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net
>Organization: mail2news@nym.alias.net
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>Of course, the defamation campaign orchestrated by Sassaman and Palfrader is going on.
>I should have enforced the rule "3 times and you are out", and block them a *long* time ago.
>I should also have found the time to write the webpages detailing their actions, and also how I disposed of the 5 flooders I outed so far.
>And, of course, the Gardner case: a guy who floods an abuse address by sending a copy of *every* post he does not like, and also spams the upstreams, has no room teaching in an university, even an US one where sports is more important than intellect.
>I got no response so far from <abuse@uiuc.edu>: maybe Gardner is in bed with the football coach...
> So now, I close Frog. I have many reasons for this, but Frog is no more
> and will never be back. Fuck all you people.
>I have been back home for nearly 1 month now.
>_______________________________________________________________
>The floods against the remailer had morphed, then stopped.
>- -------------------------
>First, it was an attack against my bandwidth
> (number of messages)
>90 minutes after my first post
>| news:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=P3L5H15S37746.6381481482%40Gilgamesh-frog.org&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
>| Subject: [WARNING] Rot26-->Frog and Randseed-->Frog to broken within 48 hours
>| Date: 5 May 2003 15:21:03 +0200
>Frog has been subjected to a flood (up to the 45.000 msg/day range)
>
>Details can be seen here
>Browse into Frog Remailer Load Graphs
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/Browse.html
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030505.gif 11.648 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030506.gif 36.823 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030507.gif 18.235 msg (frogadmin.yi.org down)
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030508.gif 34.399 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030509.gif 41.525 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030510.gif 41.744 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030511.gif 39.791 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030512.gif 40.992 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030513.gif 36.499 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030514.gif 46 467 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030515.gif 37.649 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030516.gif 16.379 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030517.gif 18.953 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030518.gif 18.861 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030519.gif 16.840 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030520.gif 10.300 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030521.gif 7.379 msg
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/Graphs/IDAY_20030522.gif 4.581 msg
>(Those charts use local (French) time GMT+02:00)
>Gilgamesh had been coping well:
> http://frogadmin.yi.org/cgi-bin/Spy1.exe
> Maximum backlog was ~7000 messages, latency as seen from the outside is ~4 hours
>while the maximum flood weathered was 45.000+ messages/day
>So these bastards, I will sue them.
>I was travelling myself, so I just briefly caressed the idea to pretend to accept the meeting and have him served some legal papers.
>So that he understands that France is living under French law, not Sassaman's, or Palfrader's, or Gardner's, or US law.
>And that French law includes a few interesting provisions regarding defamation and libel.
>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>The various blocks have been reported, and the remailer's and mail2news' volumes are back in the normal range (8000 and 700)
>And now, back to my wine cellar to get drunk.
>My remailing days are over.
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[end quote]

and the famous landmark advice years before "Frog" went kaput. . .
>Path: news...!EU.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!anon.lcs.mit.edu!nym.alias.net!mail2news-x3!mail2news-x2!mail2news
>Date: 7 Feb 2000 07:20:33 -0000
>Message-ID: <20000207072033.31242.qmail@nym.alias.net>
>From: RProcess <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
>Author-Address: rprocess <AT> nym <DOT> alias <DOT> net
>Subject: Re: Remailer abuser caught:
>CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
>Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.anonymous
>Followup-To: alt.privacy.anon-server
>References: <20000207015146.481@nyarlatheotep.frog.org>
>X-Potato-URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~potatoware/
>Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net
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>Xref: news... alt.privacy.anon-server:16192 alt.privacy:11943 alt.anonymous:4986
>On 7 Feb 2000, Frog-Admin wrote in alt.privacy.anon-server:
>> I caught an abuser (trivial traffic analysis):
snip
>Remailers do suffer abuse. I personally have admired operators who
>shut down their remailer or reduced its capabilities after
>sustained abuse or complaints, rather than degrading its security
>and the integrity of the entire network. I hope you will reconsider
>your policy of publishing and monitoring user information.
[end quoted excerpt]

politics aside, the "Frog" remailer was a welcome addition back
in those heady days . . . c'est la vie