For those interested, there has been an active debate on the Usenet newsgroup news.admin.policy about whether anonymous posting should be allowed on technical newsgroups. Johan Helsingius's anonymous server at anon.penet.fi is being widely attacked for allowing this function. Several questionable messages have been posted to various groups using this server and some of these are being used as examples of why anonymous posting should not be allowed. There have been about 50 messages on the topic, with probably 40+ being generally opposed to anonymous posting on the non-"personal" groups, and only a few being in favor. I don't really know how much influence that newsgroup has on the Usenet anarchy but there certainly does seem to be a lot of opposition to anonymity. Since it is an important part of our Cypherpunk ideals I think we need to give some thought to how to "sell" the idea of anonymous mail and postings to the net community. Hal Finney 74076.1041@compuserve.com