In order for your mixmaster messages to make their way into USENET newsgroups, you'll need to send them via one or more mail2news gateways. These are servers that agree to accept your email message, convert it to a USENET article and post it to a news server. These mail2news gates do not anonymize your article. They will post the article with whatever sender information the message indicates. In order for the article to be anonymous, we send it to the gateway via a chain of mixmaster remailers.
Current Gateways as of 01/01/2010
Here's a list of currently functioning mail2news gateways. Please understand, some or all may be gone by the time you read this help. If you use something here and nothing gets through, it's a good bet the gateway is down or deceased. Even if all these listed are deceased, others will have taken their place. The only sure way to get a current list is by visiting the newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server.stats.
mail2news@bananasplit.info mail2news@dizum.com mail2news@reece.net.au mail2news@m2n.mixmin.net mail2news@m2n.gabrix.ath.cx mail2news@tioat.net
Using More Than One Gateway
Feel free to add more than one mail2news gateway to your To header. Your article will be propagated much more quickly, yet only one article will appear in the newsgroup. The reason only one will appear is that USENET articles are propagated based on Message ID. This ID is added by the last remailer in your chain. Each news server checks incoming articles to see if they already have the given ID. If so, the article is discarded. Thus, you get the benefit of the faster propagation without duplication, and you have the extra security of more gateways in the event one is down.
The _nospam Variation
A nice feature the mail2news gateways provide is the _nospam gateway. Examples include, mail2news_nospam@dizum.com, mail2news_nospam@bananasplit.info, etc. Spammers use special software to harvest email addresses, by the millions, from the USENET news. However, with messages chained through several remailers, we don't need to worry about spam. On the other hand, if we post using an actual, working email address, that address will become a spam magnet. In this case, the _nospam gateway, will save the day by munging the address like this:
From: QuickSilver <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> Author-Address: quicksilver <AT> quicksilvermail <DOT> net