On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07:33PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
-- On 10 Dec 2003 at 18:22, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all of it is from remailers posting to Usenet (or remailers sending mail to mail2news gateways), otherwise there's little point of using it.
You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he is posting to. (Assuming his recipient sets his newsagent to always download all new messages)
Oh, that's true of course; but the adversary would be able to know that you posted something (given that he's monitoring your traffic). That's already something, and frequently more than you'd want to give away. I did inspect a few random messages and they all came from remailers. -- avva