From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 00:52:21 PST
To: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: anon.penet.fi remailers
In-Reply-To: <9302230753.AA18385@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <9302231003.aa20289@penet.penet.FI>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



> I balk at Yet-More-F******-Header-Lines (YMFHL) but a _possible_ patch
> is to have a:
> 
> X-Show-My-Anon: yes|no       (in the header),
> 
> or:
> 
> ::
> X-Show-My-Anon: yes|no       (in the body)

Yes. Thinking about something like this. But what is teh best syntax?

> (BTW I saw someone's .sig where they *advertised* their anon id on USENET.
>  Presumably this was because he thought thats what you had to do so others
>  could email them anonomously... obviously he wont be a whistle blower :)

Well, it could be somebody who doesn't care about his/her own anonymity,
but wants to make it as easy as possible to send anon mail to him/her.
It's so much easier to mail to anXXXX@anon.penet.fi than to use stuff
like user%host.domain@anon.penet.fi or hack around with strange extra
X-Anon-* headers (especially with anally-retentive mailers etc.).

	Julf