Jon Care (iijon@iiit.swan.ac.uk) is believed to have said:

Was this a real message, or is someone having us on? I mean, come on, who seriously describes themselves as "MacGuru" AND puts in their anonymous email address as well :)

Not very anonymous now is it?

I'm sorry, I didn't know that I wasn't allowed to have fun _and_ be on this list. The MacGuru was picked up here on campus, and since I rarley send mail off campus, I usually forget to turn it off. As far as having the anon address in my sig, L. McCarthy <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> said:

I think the idea is that email sent to an anXXXXX@anon.penet.fi address will be anonymized by the penet server, so you can establish a conversation channel with MacGuru here without setting up a reply block through some remailers. In some newsgroups where anonymous posting is common, listing of several "anonymous" email addresses in .sigs is also common.

I did this for the exact same reason. If someone wants to mail me anonymously, they have the option to just mail my anon account. What's so wrong with that??

The message itself reeks of the typical chain letter-- oh please send this to absolutely everyone you know with email! It'll help them lots!

Yeah, whatever.

Someone (I'm not sure who) brought up the point that the file could actually be an ANSI bomb. It seems to me that for the IBM and clone users on the 'net, this could be something that they would want to watch out for. Now we all know that it wasn't real (and many of you just "knew" it wasn't), it doesn't matter, does it? -=-=-=- Adam J. Gerstein MacGuru to the stars Available at: GERSTEIN@SCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU MACGEEK@SCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU A GERSTEIN@AOL.COM MACGEEK@eWorld.com an41389@anon.penet.fi (for anonymity) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=