1993-02-23 - Re:

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From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>
To: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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Reply To: <9302231626.AA01332@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1993-02-23 20:35:12 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 12:35:12 PST

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From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 12:35:12 PST
To: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Subject: Re:
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> > There has been a lot of discussion about this, and I'm afraid it's too
> > late to change the *default* behavior now...
> 
> Why?  It seems to me the X-Anon-Password header was a pretty major
> change, yet you made that change to preserve people's pseudonymous
> identities.  The instant challenge is just as grave, don't you think?

It still didn't affect much of the functionality. You can still post,
and mail to anXXXX users without knowing anything about passwords or
X-Anon headers. And you only need to set your password to "none" to get
the old behaviour.

	Julf






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