From: loki@obscura.com (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 15:51:05 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Direct Socket to Remailer?
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At 11:41 PM 9/3/95, starrd@iia2.org wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Lance Cottrell wrote:
>
>> You should try the telnet port 25 trick. It is amazingly simple (but not
>> secure). Just "telnet some.machine.com 25" and type help. It will guide you
>> through it. It is quite informative.
>
>Se sure to test it first, sometimes it records who *really* sent it as
>well as the "forged" return address.
>
>Test it by mailing to yourself and then look at all the headers.
>

I should have been more clear. I was advocating this as interesting and
educational, not as an effective anonymity technique.

        -Lance


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