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[James A. Donald]

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At 04:20 PM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:00:38PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:

At 11:24 AM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
 > > > Only by running your own mail or news server can you prevent the
 > > > ISP from monitoring your email or news reading.

James A. Donald:
 > > My newsreader, like most people's newsreaders, automatically
 > > downloads those newsgroups I am interested in full, in the
 > > background.   Therefore there is no way anyone can know which
 > > particular message of "alt.anonymous.messages" I have read.

At 04:20 PM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
 > Interesting.  I didn't know that newsreaders did that.

I use Agent.

If you do not use such a newsreader, you should probably use the 
"secret-admirers" list, to ensure that no one can tell which particular 
message you care about.

If, however, you use a newsreader like Agent to download all of 
alt.anonymous.messages, as I do, you get the same security, and greater 
obscurity.

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