-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was one of the people who suffered from the anon.penet.fi attack which allocated IDs to so many members of this list. I immediately sent a message to admin@anon.penet.fi asking to have the message removed. I just received the reply below. I am not familiar with this person. Does this person speak for Julf? Is the snakemail.hut.fi site associated with the anon.penet.fi site? Thanks for all help.

From: Mari (Black Panther) Sepp{ <zarr@snakemail.hut.fi> Subject: Re: Unauthorized allocation of annon ID. To: lcottrell@popmail.ucsd.edu (Lance Cottrell) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 11:48:56 +0200 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]

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I suspect that you are aware of the attack on your system. Hundreds of IDs are being created and the annon and real IDs posted to Alt.test. What can we do to have these anon IDs removed.

Yes, those id's that didn't have passwords were attacked. You can delete the id by sending me mail from the account id is on.

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Are the anon IDs directly derivable from the source address, or would I get a different ID if I reapplied? Many thanks, and hope things are not going too bad there.

If you send a message to ping@anon.penet.fi after the removal you will get a new id.

Zarr

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