One of the denizens from alt.flame (wotan@databasix.com / wotan@netcom.com) is on a personal crusade to get the Mailmasher pseudonym server shut down, claiming that it was "abused" by accepting "forgeries". As you'll recall, the pretext of "abuse" was conveniently used my the CoS to get several remailers shut down. Let's not let the enemies of privacy win this one! Here's how William McClatchey, aka "Wotan", concluded his post:
Well, I was nice and polite when the forgeries began. I sent toxic a nice message asking that he disable the abitlity to forge wotan@databasix and wotan@netcom. That appears to be too hard for him. He gets his access from mci.
I encourage anyone who is being forged due to the deliberate negligence on toxic's part to write hotwired and MCI asking that mailmasher be shut down until it can longer be used to commit forgeries.
Mr. McClatchey (Wotan) is certainly well aware that you can't detect "forgeries" without positive proof of a person's identity, which would defeat the entire purpose of posting anonymously/pseudonymously. And to "disable the ability to forge" e-mail addresses is well beyond the scope of Mailmasher, since it's as easy to do as changing the settings in Netscape, Eudora, etc. His demands are like asking the USPS to make sure that the return address you put on each envelope you mail is your own!