[41750] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca)
Wed Oct 18 20:26:48 1995
From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 20:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
To: David Neal <dneal@electrotex.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510182357.SAA05686@etex.electrotex.com>
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, David Neal wrote:
> YIKES! Think again. Many of the *.test newsgroups have auto-responders
> that remail the poster assuring them their post was received. This feature
> is used to make sure your newsfeed is working.
Yeah, but you can turn them off by having "Test" in your header. I
disovered this after getting my mailbox filled with those bloody
auto-responses. It isn't really important since you're posting your file
encrypted a second time in the first remailer's key, so the received file
will bear no resemblance to the original.
And as far as wasting a lot of bandwidth is concerned, it would never be worse
than the alt.binaries newsgroups.
