[A] computer service that forwards e-mails or files to other addresses over the Internet. But the remailer also strips off the "header" part of the messages, which shows where they came from and who sent them. All the receiver can tell about a message´s origin is that it passed through the anonymous mailer.
By August of 1996, Johan Helsingius, amid accusations of aiding child pornographers through his anonymous remailer, shut down his server.[95] Nevertheless, other anonymous remailers still exist and are consistently employed by internet users.