From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 09:43:27 +0800
To: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
Subject: Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
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On  1 Jul 96 at 20:28, David Wagner wrote:
[..]
> Ian and I talked about this at some length.  alt.anonymous.messages
> has certain unfortunate shortcomings.

> Someone sniffing the Berkeley 'net can tell when I receive an
> alt.anonymous.messages message by when I download an article from
> the NNTP server; they can tell when I send such an article by when
> I upload an article to the NNTP server; they can list all the
> ``subversive'' Berkeley folks who have read alt.anonymous.messages
> lately.

Uploading can be gotten around by using anonymous remailers and 
mail-to-news gateways... although someone can tell if you send mail 
to anonymous mailers.

Rob
 
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