University logging mail to anon.penet (fwd)

[Charles Gimon]

Forwarded message:
> From toad.com!owner-cypherpunks Wed Sep  6 21:43:41 1995
> From: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons at goblin.punk.net>
> Subject: University logging mail to anon.penet
> 
> This just came up locally, and I'd like to have some comments on it, 
> especially from people who understand the law a lot better than I do:
> 
> Our local University apparently has been logging ALL mail to anon.penet,
> including faculty, students, and off-campus users.
> 
> They maintain such weak security that someone was able to "obtain"
> the logs and post them to a local usenet group, thus compromising
> everyone's "anonymous" identities.
> 

punk.net is in San Luis Obispo. Since Skypoint carries a lot of 
regional groups, I can follow the issue on Usenet, in these
groups:

slo.unix,slo.general,slo.punks,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp
.org.eff.talk

Those of you who don't get the slo.* groups, you can probably see
the original posts in comp.org.eff.talk or alt.comp.acad-freedom.

The subject is "No subject".

(I still chuckle when I see the group slo.sex ...)