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1994-09-18 - Re: (fwd) “Will You Be a Terrorist?”

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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-18 01:45:47 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 18:45:47 PDT

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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 18:45:47 PDT
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: (fwd) "Will You Be a Terrorist?"
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> 
> I'd suggest that a much more productive avenue of approach would be to
> improve the aliasing facilities of a remailer provider to allow a
> pseudonym to look like a fully normal name.

it's done. omega.c2.org
	http://www.c2.org/services/blindserver.html
	http://www.c2.org/services/blindclient.html

> 
> Ownership of root is not necessary for this.  I know that Matt Ghio's
> mail delivery set up allows this.  At his site there's this
> 'name+extra' syntax which delivers mail to 'name', but because of a
> special sendmail version 8 macro in the Received: field both the
> 'name' and the 'extra' can be recovered.  The 'extra' is then an input
> into a remailer as a pseudonym.
> 
> The aliasing has to happen somewhere.  It can happen at the mailing
> list exploder or at the remailer.  Since the mapping at the remailer
> is of much more general use, and since it allows one to leverage _all_
> forms of mail communication and not just mailing list, it seems like a
> much better place for that mapping to exist.  Implementation inside a
> remailer is a duplication of function--almost always a bad thing.
> 
> Eric
> 


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