From: Greg Broiles <greg@ideath.goldenbear.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 13:20:26 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailers and "##"
In-Reply-To: <199412071922.AA13633@xtropia>
Message-ID: <199412072119.AA11687@ideath.goldenbear.com>
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X-To: sq0nk@alt.anonymous.messages
>most remailers will not let you set the From: line this way.
>could one of the remailer operators tell us why?
>it doesn't make sense to me.

I'm not going to install remailer software that would allow this
because it'd make it even easier to post messages under someone 
else's name. I think that's rude and I'm not going to help other
people do it. I think it's fine for people to refuse to identify
themselves or to identify themselves with multiple names, but
I don't like people using other folks' names, esp. in text-based
media where the notionis of "identity" and "author" are awfully
slippery in the first place.

(Yes, I am aware that it's trivial to forge messages, and that
widespread use of digital signatures would make the From: line
essentially meaningless.)


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