At 07:30 PM 9/6/95 -0700, you wrote:
Our local University apparently has been logging ALL mail to anon.penet, including faculty, students, and off-campus users.
Any time you're using non-encrypted remailers, you've got no protection against people doing that; even with encrypted messages they can still tell who's sending mail to anon.penet.fi, but can't tell who the messages are forwarded to. There may be ECPA issues involved, especially if CalPolySLO is a government- run university; the sysadmins certainly need to learn some ethics... If your ombudsperson can be reached by email, a note through anon.penet.fi explaining the usefulness of anonymous remailers for sensitive communications might be educational. After all, it's a technique they might want to use for handling sexual harassment cases or other problems requiring two-way communications. #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---