From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 15:54:19 PST
To: Remailer-Operators@c2.org>
Subject: Re: Abuse and Remailer Ethics
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At 10:27 PM 1/16/95 -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> ... So I'm tempted to say "tough luck" to newsgroups that
>don't like receiving anonymous posts. The alternative is for people
>interested to create a moderated newsgroup, where of course the moderator
>could refuse to allow anonymosu posts with or without the remailer
>operators cooperation. ...

Another, and less onerous alternative, is to simply stick encrypted reply-to 
blocks on messages to newsgroups.  At that point there's no real difference 
between the anon post and a post from a system that doesn't provide real 
name<->userid mappings, and the flames can go straight from the newsgroup to 
the instigator without involving the remailer op.


    --Paul J. Ste. Marie
      pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com