From: greg@ideath.goldenbear.com (Greg Broiles)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 00:00:25 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: message pools revisited
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uunet!bilbo.suite.com!jim (Jim Miller) writes:

> I think it is time to ask again.  Do people think it would be a good  
> idea to create a news group for exchanging anonymous messages?   
> Alternatively, perhaps some cypherpunks with free time would like to  
> code up a simplified distributed message pool service modeled after  
> USENET.  You would need servers to distribute the messages and  
> front-end "reader" apps to simplify searching for messages destined  
> for you.  Any takers?

I think it's time - messages to Pr0duct Cypher (sp?) have begun to appear
on C-punks and on at least one of the Usenet groups; I think it's time
for alt.crypto-traffic, or alt.W.A.S.T.E (from Pynchon's _The Crying of
Lot 49_ - I think it was Tim May who first suggested alt.W.A.S.T.E).

I found a nice Perl script to scan a news spool (or a subset thereof) for
arbitrary text strings. It could easily be modified to send its output to
mail; so one wouldn't even need to subscribe to the group to rcv messages,
if correspondents would be so obliging as to mention the intended target
of the message (which, of course, would create a security risk and
facilitate traffic analysis; security or convenience, choose only one.)


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