Anonymity: A Modest Proposal

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Thu Oct 19 15:11:21 PDT 1995


Futplex wrote:

| The fundamental conflict, as I see it, is this: 
| For security reasons, we want messages to be distributed to a very wide
| audience, although those messages are only of interest to a very narrow
| audience. News admins understandably are generally inclined to accept
| bandwidth only in proportion to readership. For practical reasons, they don't
| want to carry messages to people who aren't interested in them. It's not
| easy to convince the news admins to do it anyway out of altruism.

	How about a local group, such as ucb.anonymous?  Those news
admins who wanted it could get it.  Not perfect, but reduced
polyticks, increased usablity.

Adam


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					               -Hume






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