I agree with Alan's position that anonymization not be done automatically on reply to mailers, but in fairness Julf has argued that the "least astonishment" position goes the other way. Apparently for several years anonymous/pseudonymous servers have operated on the talk groups which do the automatic anonymization. People there have come to expect that when they reply to an anonymous message their own identity will be protected. Providing an anonymous server for which this established behavior does not occur will no doubt astonish many experienced users of these services. Still, I think the current behavior is wrong, and IMO the sooner people learn a new way of using anonymous servers, the better. When we do deploy anonymous servers which allow replies, it will be important to include disclaimers which remind people that their replies will not be anonymous. Unfortunately, some or most newsreaders do not show header fields, and I dislike sticking disclaimers into the message body itself. Hal