Re: The Crisis with Remailers
From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 22-MAY-1996 17:00:33.67
Pointing people at legitimate uses of anonymity, as various folks have suggested, is undoubtedly a good idea. Would anyone care to suggest a few newsgroups where the vast majority of anonymous posts have really good reasons for being so?
While it isn't usage of true cypherpunk remailers, the sexual abuse survivors newsgroup(s) would appear to be a place to start. Some of the groups discussing human rights cases are also a possibility, as is alt.religion.scientology. -Allen
On Wed, 22 May 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 22-MAY-1996 17:00:33.67
Pointing people at legitimate uses of anonymity, as various folks have suggested, is undoubtedly a good idea. Would anyone care to suggest a few newsgroups where the vast majority of anonymous posts have really good reasons for being so?
While it isn't usage of true cypherpunk remailers, the sexual abuse survivors newsgroup(s) would appear to be a place to start. Some of the groups discussing human rights cases are also a possibility, as is alt.religion.scientology.
To those unfamiliar with the issues, ars is not a good example. At first, it looks like a bunch of louts screaming. I'd mention alt.revisionism, where anonymity is used and recognized by all sides, usually responsibly (though that probably wasn't true before I dropped in). It's the stupid skinheads configuring Netscape with "anonymous" addresses that bug me; I usually find their real address and tell them how to get a real remailer or freenet account. Of course, to people who don't know what to filter, alt.revisionism also looks like a bunch of louts screaming. -rich
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