From: "Scott V. McGuire" <svmcguir@syr.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:02:54 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: mail-to-news fun
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
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> If I were going to restart a remailer, and to offer news posting,
> I'd probably limit it to posting to moderated newsgroups only,
> so a human can trash things that look like SPAM or abuse;
> the abuse that caused me to kill my remailer wasn't something
> a simple filter would catch.  (I'd also prefix each posting with a 
> header about this message having been received from an anonymous source,
> not verified, not guaranteed to be worth the electrons it's printed on,
> probably not written by anybody whose name's at the bottom, etc....
> People don't read mail headers or disclaimers at the bottom,
> and putting disclaimers like that into message text for
> email exposes the message to traffic analysis.)

How does putting it in the message expose it to traffic analysis but not
putting it in a header?

>
...snip...
> 
> #			Thanks;  Bill
> # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
> # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
> #     (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies.  Thanks.)
> 

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Scott V. McGuire <svmcguir@syr.edu>
PGP key available at http://web.syr.edu/~svmcguir
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