In article <9309210809.AA08533@jobe.shell.portal.com> pierre@shell.portal.com writes:

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of the net community responds to wider access to anonymity by filtering out anonymous mail, my prediction (and suggestion :) is that people [...] will resort to mail which is non-obviously anonymous.

Just to let you know, this *is* happening. I got so pissed off at the postings here from anonymous remailers that I've now put them in my kill file. (I gate this stuff into a local newsgroup and read it with a newsreader). Actually it wasn't the content of the articles that narked me, it was that I actually wanted to *reply* to the authors. However the subjects were way too off-topic to be worth responding to in public, which is the only option the anonymous remailers allows. I've no objections (and haven't kill'd) articles from penet etc that I can reply to. I'm not entirely happy with the whole concept of 'hit&run' anonymous remailers - they're only good for throwaway comments on public lists, or whistleblowing. That's not how they're being used - they're forcing people to have private conversations in public lists like this, which I think is unfair to the rest of the list community - I'm *sure* it's contributed to the number of people dropping off this list lately. G -- Personal mail to gtoal@gtoal.com (I read it in the evenings) Business mail to gtoal@an-teallach.com (Be careful with the spelling!) Faxes to An Teallach Limited: +44 31 662 4678 Voice: +44 31 668 1550 x212