Maybe it's not in the spirit of this mailing group but what of the question of purposeful abuse of the anon mailers/newsposters? Say for instance some person posts either a sh*tload of garbage to every known group, flooding the USENET or a more personal attack whereby they send out anonymously information that was so fundamentally personal to someone they could possibly react very badly.... What if someone posted some top secret information and the various three letter acronyms all went out for someone's blood. As a few people have mentioned they would *like* the opportunity to use an anon system but the initial step of creating and running it isnt so appealing due to the fundamental dangers of it. Most people would respect such systems but you find one really rotten or immature loser that will use it for there own anti-social ends. Comments? Mark mark@coombs.anu.edu.au mark@gnu.ai.mit.edu markm@rmit.edu.au