Peter Trei writes:
It's rare enough that when a new anononym appears, we know that the poster made a considered decision to be anonymous.
The current poster seems to have parachuted in from nowhere, to argue a specific position on a single topic. It's therefore reasonable to infer that the nature of that position and topic has some bearing on the decision to be anonymous.
Yes, my name is "AARG!". That was the first thing my mother said after I was born, and the name stuck. Not really. For Peter's information, the name associated with a message through an anonymous remailer is simply the name of the last remailer in the chain, whatever that remailer operator chose to call it. AARG is a relatively new remailer, but if you look at http://anon.efga.org/Remailers/TypeIIList you will see that it is very reliable and fast. I have been using it as an exit remailer lately because other ones that I have used often produce inconsistent results. It has not been unusual to have to send a message two or three times before it appears. So far that has not been a problem with this one. So don't read too much into the fact that a bunch of anonymous postings have suddenly started appearing from one particular remailer. For your information, I have sent over 400 anonymous messages in the past year to cypherpunks, coderpunks, sci.crypt and the cryptography list (35 of them on TCPA related topics).