Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:01:00 -0400 (EDT) From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca Reply-to: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca Subject: Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal To: Doug Cutrell <doug@cdsnet.net> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Doug Cutrell wrote:
It seems that there could at least be a hierarchy of shadowed newsgroups, e.g. alt.freespeech.*, requiring the enduser to use special software to reassemble actual postings. This could even be integrated into the newsreaders, or even at a local newserver level.
There already is. I think the *.test (or at least alt.test) groups have good propagation. Nobody "reads" anything but their own posts anyway, so the natives wouldn't be bothered.
YIKES! Think again. Many of the *.test newsgroups have auto-responders that remail the poster assuring them their post was received. This feature is used to make sure your newsfeed is working.
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, David Neal wrote:
YIKES! Think again. Many of the *.test newsgroups have auto-responders that remail the poster assuring them their post was received. This feature is used to make sure your newsfeed is working.
Yeah, but you can turn them off by having "Test" in your header. I disovered this after getting my mailbox filled with those bloody auto-responses. It isn't really important since you're posting your file encrypted a second time in the first remailer's key, so the received file will bear no resemblance to the original. And as far as wasting a lot of bandwidth is concerned, it would never be worse than the alt.binaries newsgroups.
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