1996-08-03 - Re: Information gathering by news servers

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@ARC.unm.EDU>
To: Scott McGuire <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 7d18b422f086ea51d73a9f08e2ceeb76d7f6f25d9cf006979843c091c5c7c8e7
Message ID: <1.5.4.16.19960803171637.3b574292@arc.unm.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-03 19:05:41 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 03:05:41 +0800

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@ARC.unm.EDU>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 03:05:41 +0800
To: Scott McGuire <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Information gathering by news servers
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960803171637.3b574292@arc.unm.edu>
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At 12.33 PM 8/2/96 -0400, Scott McGuire wrote:
>How much information about what someone reads can be gathered
>by a news server?  Is there an anonymous way to read a public
>news server, or would a server have to be set up intentionally
>to allow anonymous reading?

You could use the Anonymizer (http://www.anonymizer.com/) in
combination with a Web Usenet archive: Dejanews, for example.
(http://www.dejanews.com/).

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