-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:46:17 -0800 From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Eric Hughes suggests an alt.whistleblower with localized anonymizing. I like this, but I don't see how NNTP provides it. Wouldn't every server have to be modified or upgraded to support anonymizing?
In an already supported sense, yes. As I understand it, when a moderated group is created, an email address for the moderator is propagated with it. So every time a moderated group is created, every server already is "modified". That's how it *should* work, not how it *does* work. In real life, moderator addresses are distributed "out of band" to a relatively small number of "backbone" sites; all the rest of the sites merely forward the mail to a "backbone" site. Making a newsgroup moderated in the absence of a moderation address is an easy way to make it "read-only"; I think the folks who run the fj.* groups do this instead of sending rmgroups (which are generally ignored). - Bill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.1 iQCWAgUBK4r4H69wjZexL7jBAQGBagQBAbrZ42usqd/JhdWqtMNbS6PmXHfSCcA7 5qvi34i/vSe0lKc4t5JFys4S7+4OCkR8URniwOhcDGMXoXMTfeonbqNakselMJn3 m3l0Zz/vmA8ZcY0eS0F27AVwydooIVSdRiI5TFVFOLrnOzSpmyBxYzgzavnG0jRm T8vecJTtYqXf =VFG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----