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From: mcdaniel@u.washington.edu (McDaniel)
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jdfalk@cais2.cais.com (J.D. Falk) writes:

>	What you propose would involve rewriting news and mail software 
>at every site.  This will not happen.


Oh?   All it would require is for anonymous posting services to keep
a list of the onwers of moderated newsgroups and notify the individual
moderator on a periodical basis, as to what the real e-mail address
of the anonymous poster is (and what message the posted.)

Right now many moderated groups have banned anonymous posting.
I only hope that trend continues in groups where misinformation
is very destructive (political and sci groups for instance.)

-McDaniel