dispatches from the front lines of anonymity
Bill Sommerfeld
sommerfeld at orchard.medford.ma.us
Tue Feb 23 21:28:49 PST 1993
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 18:46:17 -0800
From: Eric Hughes <hughes at soda.berkeley.edu>
>Eric Hughes suggests an alt.whistleblower with localized anonymizing. I
>like this, but I don't see how NNTP provides it. Wouldn't every server
>have to be modified or upgraded to support anonymizing?
In an already supported sense, yes. As I understand it, when a
moderated group is created, an email address for the moderator is
propagated with it. So every time a moderated group is created, every
server already is "modified".
That's how it *should* work, not how it *does* work. In real life,
moderator addresses are distributed "out of band" to a relatively
small number of "backbone" sites; all the rest of the sites merely
forward the mail to a "backbone" site.
Making a newsgroup moderated in the absence of a moderation address is
an easy way to make it "read-only"; I think the folks who run the fj.*
groups do this instead of sending rmgroups (which are generally
ignored).
- Bill
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