remailer signature suppression
Edgar W. Swank
edgar at spectrx.saigon.com
Mon Dec 28 00:54:12 PST 1992
Marc Horowitz wrote on Dec 23:
I think that signatures should be kept. If you really want to be
anonymous, you have bigger things to worry about than your sig
showing up or not.
I don't follow Marc's logic here. If the wrong sig shows up, it
obviously negates all other precautions taken in using remailers, etc.
And if I want to build a pseudonymous identity for myself, I might
want to have a sig for that identity. I wouldn't want the
remailers stripping that out.
The problem is if you want to send a mixture of anonymous and
regular mail. This involves changing the "sig" on the fly; difficult
to do reliably with an automatic script. With loss of anonymity the
consequence of the wrong sig appearing with either anonymous or non-
anonymous messages.
Perhaps it would make sense to have a header field which indicated
if the sig should be kept or not.
This might be a good compromise. Of course I would prefer the
signature-screen: Yes to be the default. Also don't forget that
for those of us who can't specify net-headers at will this new
header would also have to be specifiable within text via the ::
convention or otherwise.
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