From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 12:40:29 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Misunderstanding of Remail Headers
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Message-ID: <199412122040.MAA17924@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu (Jonathan Rochkind) writes:

>quoted from the Globe & Mail appearantly didn't even understand the
>disclaimer. The article was worded in such a way to make it seem the
>disclaimer was saying that Bob Rae didn't really write the message, as
>opposed to saying that Hal Finney didn't really write the message!
>Something needs to be done so that even the most internet clueless will
>understand that the message _isn't_ from Finney or McCarthy or Joe Random
>RemailerOp, which appearantly isn't clear to many people currently.

There was some discussion here last week about remailers which don't let
users put in "From:" lines.  This case shows a good reason not to allow
them.  "Reply-To:" should be used to force a reply to some anonymous return
address if you have one.  So perhaps filtering "From:" is a good idea.

Hal

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