No one complains. Apparently everyone with an ounce of moral sense has left the list long ago.
Silence doesn't necessarily denote agreement, especially from someone (for example, me :) who avoids political posts altogether... ============================================================================ That stylometry thing (figuring out who wrote a message from its content) seems to be a big problem for people using remailers. Initially, I thought you could avoid it by using some software to tinker with your words. Although that can confuse some attacks, there are still author-dependent things you can't hide so easily. For example, someone with a sufficiently big sample of your writing (i.e., all a nym's public traffic) could measure, say, the number words per sentence, or how likely you are to use certain punctuation/function words, and use that to match it to something you wrote under your own name. And the measurement part isn't rocket science, either -- I slapped together a simple stylometer from basic UNIX tools (sed, sort, uniq, grep) and a calculator, and it appears to actually _work_. (In addition to being able to say two messages are by the same person, it looks like you can also tell a little bit about the author, but as for how much and what...?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall Farmer rfarmer@hiwaay.net http://hiwaay.net/~rfarmer