From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 05:56:29 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Standard Headers for Anonymous Remailers
Message-ID: <9309211251.AA26597@big.l1135.att.com>
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In article <9309210809.AA08533@jobe.shell.portal.com> pierre@shell.portal.com writes:
 > > of the net community responds to wider access to anonymity by filtering out 
 > > anonymous mail, my prediction (and suggestion :) is that people [...]
 > > will resort to mail which is non-obviously anonymous.

Just to let you know, this *is* happening.  I got so pissed off at the
postings here from anonymous remailers that I've now put them in my
kill file. (I gate this stuff into a local newsgroup and read it with
a newsreader).

Actually it wasn't the content of the articles that narked me, it was
that I actually wanted to *reply* to the authors.  However the subjects
were way too off-topic to be worth responding to in public, which is
the only option the anonymous remailers allows.  I've no objections
(and haven't kill'd) articles from penet etc that I can reply to.

I'm not entirely happy with the whole concept of 'hit&run' anonymous
remailers - they're only good for throwaway comments on public lists, 
or whistleblowing.  That's not how they're being used - they're forcing
people to have private conversations in public lists like this, which
I think is unfair to the rest of the list community - I'm *sure* it's
contributed to the number of people dropping off this list lately.

G
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