From: b44729@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Samuel Pigg)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 23:35:35 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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>>>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 1993 22:59:48 -0700, anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com said:

 > ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu (L. Detweiler) writes:
 
 >C'punks, it seems to me that the anonymous pool idea is underutilized
 >by the remailers. I suggest that a remailer variation be developed that
 >posts to an anonymous pool (some appropriate obscure newsgroup)

 MC> No need to change anything.  Just add a pool address to the
 MC> "Request-remailing-to:" line.

 MC> Miron Cuperman <miron@extropia.wimsey.com>

	anonymous> Excuse me if I am misunderstanding the "obscure
	anonymous> newsgroup" concept, but is not the
	anonymous> "Request-Remailing-To:" feature of cypherpunks
	anonymous> remailers unable to post to newsgroups, but only to
	anonymous> individual or mailing list addresses?  I have been
	anonymous> told that only Penet's remailer could remail
	anonymous> directly to newsgroups, obscure or otherwise.

	anonymous> Thanks for any clarification.



No, I think that julf's remailer is the only *anonymous* posting
facility (heck there might be more *now*.) But there are several (last
I checked) non-anonymous mail->news gateways on the net, and if used
from a remailer, the only address the mail->news gateway would have is
the remailer's.
	Of course, the remailers could be rewritten to allow posting
capability also. (probably not a good idea, as I doubt many of the
remailer admins would want to suffer throught the controversy that
Julf has had to) but it's up to them.

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