From: michael shiplett <michael.shiplett@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 94 06:49:40 PST
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: WWW "remailers"
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"hf" == Hal  <hfinney@shell.portal.com> writes:

hf> Interestingly, the standard nntpd (nntp daemon, the master server
hf> which runs on a site which offers web pages) from CERN includes
hf> proxying capability automatically! All you have to do is to add a
hf> few lines to the configuration file. If this idea proves sound,
hf> perhaps some people running nntpd will enable proxies and serve as
hf> "remailer operators of the web".

  Thanks for the overview of www proxies. One correction--nntp is the
network news (USENET) transport protocol, http is the hypertext (www)
transport protocol. Upon first reading, I was confused about how news
admins could become ``remailer operators of the web''. If you really
did mean to use ``nntp'', then I'm still confused.

michael