From: Hal <74076.1041@CompuServe.COM> This method of posting does not allow you to receive replies. I have set "nicknames" for these two accounts as "Untraceable account" which will appear in the "From" line on the postings. Hopefully that will offer a clue that the normal reply mechanism doesn't work. Maybe the nickname should say so more explicitly?
You'd better make it quite clear that replies will not work. The consequences of misunderstanding here is that somebody's missive to an apparent penet user ends up in your remailer machine's postmaster's mailbox. This is not good; it's an unexpected breach of privacy, and it will tick off the sysadmin if it continues to happen. It's happened at least once -- I did it. Fortunately, my message to "NOWHERE, MAN" was about netiquette, not 'shrooms. Nothing to cause your postmaster's jaw to drop, but it could have been. The security provided by this technique could be provided without the IMHO serious disadvantage of having no return address. Eric's hybrid approach, where a pseudonym server hands mail to an remailer chain, is secure (barring sophisticated traffic analysis) if you trust the last remailer in the chain. Julf, have you thought about whether you want to do something like this?
Hal
Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu