The message forwarded by Mark Ringuette was apparently posted to sci.crypt by using a cypherpunks remailer followed by a mail-to-news gateway. To recap on how to do this, put :: Request-Remailing-To: sci-crypt@cs.utexas.edu then a blank line at the front of your message, and mail to one of the remailers (Karl Barrus posts a list every month). For more security and in-practice untraceability, use one of Karl's scripts to set up a chained request with encryption. By bouncing your message around the country like this, decrypting at each stage, you get much better security than with just one hop. Change "sci-crypt" in the address above to the name of the newsgroup you want to post to, replacing the "." in the name with "-". (No, I don't know how you post to a newsgroup with a "-" in it. Maybe it just works.) I notice that the Comment field I put out on remailed message cautioning that it is coming from an anonymous remailer did not get passed through the mail-to-news gateway software at utexas. This leaves little clue about where it came from. It does make it pretty clear that you can't reply to it since it comes from "nobody@alumni.caltech.edu". As an aside, I'd like to encourage people not to use hal@alumni.caltech.edu so much and to use one of the others more. I have one at hfinney@shell.portal.com which I think may be more immune to political pressure. Unlike the alumni account, I'm paying for this one, which should give me some clout; and also, I remember hearing that at the hackers conference the head of Portal offered some support to the idea of anonymous remailers, so I'm hoping that management won't be quick to shut me down when people complain. Hal 74076.1041@compuserve.com