Pasting in From:

[Charlie Comsec]

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stewarts at ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart) wrote:
 
> At 12:14 AM 12/01/1997 -0500, Robert A. Costner wrote:
> >Best I can tell, the only reasonable good purpose for this is to create a
> >persistent nym identity without a reply to capability.
>  
> Actually, setting the reply to point to your nymserver address
> is the one legitimate use I can see for it, though that
> capability probably should be provided by the nymserver.
> The reason for chaining through remailers is to gain anonymity.

I can think of a couple of scenarios in which pasting in a From:
header pointing to a 'nym might be advantageous:

1.)  Posts when the nymserver is down, or;

2.)  Posts from an insecure location where installation of one's secret
     keyring is not desirable.  (The "newnym" servers require that send
     requests be PGP-signed with the nym's secret key.)
  
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Finger <comsec at nym.alias.net> for PGP public key (Key ID=19BE8B0D)

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