From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:29:34 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypher-PUNKS...
In-Reply-To: <199612081821.MAA12262@cdale3.midwest.net>
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"David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org> writes:

> > Timmy posted a series of message via anonymous remailers
> > praising himself and calling himself "a genius among geniuses" or some
> >  such.
>
> That charge is every bit as foundless as the charges that you are
> responsible for the "A Daily Warning Regarding Tim May" posts
> of a while back, or the current round of remailed messages featuring
> the sickeningly cutesy ASCII graphics at the bottom.

Tim must have been a heinous baby...

> OTOH, if you've discovered a way to gain access to the remailers in
> such a fashion as to prove those messages originated from Tim May,
> please share.  (It just might be crypto-relevant, which would be
> a small miracle on the cypherpunks list these days :)

The real identities of people who use the "anonymous" remails to send out
"homophobic" or otherwise "politically incorrect" materials are frequently
disclosed on the "remailer-operators" mailing list. For example:

]Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 12:50:40 -0800 (PST)
]From: ************* <******************>
]X-Sender: ********************
]To: remailer-operators@c2.net
]Subject: feh.
]Message-Id: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961209124937.14303U-100000@*************>
]
]
]Someone who proports to be from ******************* is sending out a huge
]spam/mailbomb right now.  I suggest you sourceblock the prick now.
]
]-*****
]
]-----------------------------------------------------------------------
] Upon advice from his attorney, my tagline has no comment at this time
]

Is that "anonymous"?

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