On 1 Jul 96 at 20:28, David Wagner wrote: [..]

Ian and I talked about this at some length. alt.anonymous.messages has certain unfortunate shortcomings.

Someone sniffing the Berkeley 'net can tell when I receive an alt.anonymous.messages message by when I download an article from the NNTP server; they can tell when I send such an article by when I upload an article to the NNTP server; they can list all the ``subversive'' Berkeley folks who have read alt.anonymous.messages lately.

Uploading can be gotten around by using anonymous remailers and mail-to-news gateways... although someone can tell if you send mail to anonymous mailers. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.