From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:59:05 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com
Subject: Re: REM_ail
In-Reply-To: <199610021627.JAA25110@mail.pacifier.com>
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Jim Bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> writes:
> Now that Helsingius has shut down Penet, what's to stop him from simply 
> LYING about the source of the messages in question, maybe claiming that they 
> came from the output of a cypherpunks remailer and are thus permanently 
> untraceable?
> 
> (one feature it might have been useful for him to have included in Penet is 
> the ability of the user to re-address a return address, which would 
> presumably erase the original address in the records.  Just sending email 
> and some particular password would do it...)

He did have a feature which allowed you to remove your address.
(Either by sending mail to "remove" or "delete" (with a password if
you had one set)).

Adam
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