12 Aug
1993
12 Aug
'93
7:52 p.m.
A few months ago, someone subscribed to the list through the Penet service, and it ended up revealing the Penet aliases of everyone who posted. Each post was delivered to that subscriber marked as being from the Penet alias corresponding to the poster. All it took was a parallel non-Penet subscripti on to break the anonymity provided by Penet.
Has this now happened again?
Yes. I was contacted by the user who was the cause of this. He didn't reaalize what would happen. He has now send an unsubscribe request.
At the time, there was some discussion about using "an..." versus "na..." forms of the Penet aliases, one of which would avoid this revelation. Has that been taken care of?
Evidently not. :-( Julf