From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 20:15:27 PDT
To: jpb@gate.net (Joseph Block)
Subject: Re: How irritating are anon encrypted pgp messages
In-Reply-To: <199406140125.VAA73124@inca.gate.net>
Message-ID: <199406140315.UAA01032@netcom.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Joseph Block writes:

> Personally, I don't like them.  I can see that there are times when someone
> would not want anyone to know what the recipient's email address is, but it is
> just more noise to filter for everyone else.  I'm on several other mailing

The situation here is that _sender_ does not know the e-mail address
of the recipient!

Whether these messages are a good thing or not is a different issue,
but the fact is that what are seeing here is the use of the
Cypherpunks mailing list as a "message pool."

--Tim May



-- 
..........................................................................
Timothy C. May         | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,  
tcmay@netcom.com       | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
408-688-5409           | knowledge, reputations, information markets, 
W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA  | black markets, collapse of governments.
Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available.
"National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."