Path: math.utexas.edu!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!mcdaniel From: mcdaniel@u.washington.edu (McDaniel) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,news.admin.policy Subject: Re: Anonymous posters & Misinformation = Net pollution Date: 9 Aug 1994 14:27:30 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3283oi$nt7@news.u.washington.edu> References: <32253p$220@news.u.washington.edu> <3264ga$adk@sun.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein3.u.washington.edu Xref: math.utexas.edu talk.politics.misc:239698 news.admin.policy:19195 jdfalk@cais2.cais.com (J.D. Falk) writes:

What you propose would involve rewriting news and mail software at every site. This will not happen.

Oh? All it would require is for anonymous posting services to keep a list of the onwers of moderated newsgroups and notify the individual moderator on a periodical basis, as to what the real e-mail address of the anonymous poster is (and what message the posted.) Right now many moderated groups have banned anonymous posting. I only hope that trend continues in groups where misinformation is very destructive (political and sci groups for instance.) -McDaniel