-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- uunet!bilbo.suite.com!jim (Jim Miller) writes:
I think it is time to ask again. Do people think it would be a good idea to create a news group for exchanging anonymous messages? Alternatively, perhaps some cypherpunks with free time would like to code up a simplified distributed message pool service modeled after USENET. You would need servers to distribute the messages and front-end "reader" apps to simplify searching for messages destined for you. Any takers?
I think it's time - messages to Pr0duct Cypher (sp?) have begun to appear on C-punks and on at least one of the Usenet groups; I think it's time for alt.crypto-traffic, or alt.W.A.S.T.E (from Pynchon's _The Crying of Lot 49_ - I think it was Tim May who first suggested alt.W.A.S.T.E). I found a nice Perl script to scan a news spool (or a subset thereof) for arbitrary text strings. It could easily be modified to send its output to mail; so one wouldn't even need to subscribe to the group to rcv messages, if correspondents would be so obliging as to mention the intended target of the message (which, of course, would create a security risk and facilitate traffic analysis; security or convenience, choose only one.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQCVAgUBLVsisX3YhjZY3fMNAQFREAP/Qs/pc/jHotO8lGgvFP3JVAwrIuChVac/ OGucDlyhtohRRgrP2h8JNCURP8ZGOrwzXO0KqoJI0HqP6rHHxy+lY1+gPYrB/WLS XbS6hRdqe/awG19EiGXfvNGK9n1RoOObaleHxP1IruvC6LdX/19oax2TgcvRTOd/ mgN4teDrs4M= =5GsZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles ".. has bizarre Cyberanarchist theories relating greg@goldenbear.com to human punishment." -- L. Detweiler