From: Charlie Comsec <comsec@nym.alias.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:32:56 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
Message-ID: <19971209232007.7562.qmail@nym.alias.net>
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Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:

> > With both Nynex and Bell Atlantic, I've gotten phone service under a
> > nym.  No SSN, no credit references, no problem.
> >
> > Just don't call yourself Bill Clinton.
>  
> That isn't the same as having it listed under the nym 'anonymous', when
> you can get a phone company to start service, accept payment under that
> 'name' and keep it that way in their records let me know. Further, with
> the cross to the service address your anonymity isn't.

But that isn't analogous to making an anonymous post to a public forum
such as a Usenet NG or a mailing list.

The best telephone analogy to that I can think of would be to place a phone
call from a payphone to one of those call-in radio programs, say what you
have to say, then hang up and listen to the responses over your radio.

Signing up for a telephone under a pseudonym implies that you desire
incoming calls (private replies) and is more analogous to a 'nym server.

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