To compensate the List for consuming bandwidth with my "political" posting on advertising yesterday, I thought I'd offer some ideas on easy anonymous posting -- no remailers required. Isn't an account that can't be traced to you anonymous? How about an (email only) account for $3/month billed to you (no credit cards required). AT&T Mail (desperate for customers) charges $3/month per Email box with no setup fee. They do charge a minimum of 70 cents per message sent (50 cents if you use their pricy communications software) but they charge nothing to receive mail and give you an Internet address that looks like dfrissell@attmail.com. If you open a mail receiving service box in a nome de guerre (which is not hard to do in spite of what you might have heard), call AT&T Mail at (800) 624-5672 and sign up. After you receive your signon info, you can drop the box at the mail receiving service and just pay your future bills without a printed bill. They'll be happy to tell you what your balance is. You can logon to AT&T Mail anytime at (800) 624-5123. Use a payphone if you are really careful and enjoy anonymous posting without outside help and without having to worry about flaky remailers. Duncan Frissell
I'm not sure I agree that it is a good idea to start having many accounts all over the place that are not traceable to their users. It seems like this would be a cracker's dream.
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Duncan/Lois Frissell
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rubin@citi.umich.edu