-- At 04:20 PM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:00:38PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: At 11:24 AM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
Only by running your own mail or news server can you prevent the ISP from monitoring your email or news reading.
James A. Donald:
My newsreader, like most people's newsreaders, automatically downloads those newsgroups I am interested in full, in the background. Therefore there is no way anyone can know which particular message of "alt.anonymous.messages" I have read.
At 04:20 PM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
Interesting. I didn't know that newsreaders did that.
I use Agent. If you do not use such a newsreader, you should probably use the "secret-admirers" list, to ensure that no one can tell which particular message you care about. If, however, you use a newsreader like Agent to download all of alt.anonymous.messages, as I do, you get the same security, and greater obscurity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG D4D8Ck83IFj+/qa3eqIHud9NAAUPg5/K0N6dWb1O 4+p5eC9ANt2j9BVvAyA+VHgEr+sl7n0EiST9AFodH