At 10:27 PM 1/16/95 -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
... So I'm tempted to say "tough luck" to newsgroups that don't like receiving anonymous posts. The alternative is for people interested to create a moderated newsgroup, where of course the moderator could refuse to allow anonymosu posts with or without the remailer operators cooperation. ...
Another, and less onerous alternative, is to simply stick encrypted reply-to blocks on messages to newsgroups. At that point there's no real difference between the anon post and a post from a system that doesn't provide real name<->userid mappings, and the flames can go straight from the newsgroup to the instigator without involving the remailer op. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com