[46174] in Cypherpunks
Re: anon.penet addresses in .sigs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Sun Dec 31 08:51:48 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 08:21:40 EST
In-Reply-To: <199512311100.GAA18408@thor.cs.umass.edu>
futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex) writes:
> The direct address is easier to use, especially for people whose mailers
> don't allow them to add arbitrary email headers. Note that the ratio of
I recall that anon.penet.fi can be used by those whose mailers don't allow
them to add new headers -- the extra headers can be placed in at the top
of the body and it'll recognize them. Likewise cypherpunk remailers let
you add headers with ##. I've taught at least one extremely "non-technical"
user to use the cypherpunks remailers successfully.
> users of the various cypherpunk remailers to users of anon.penet is even
> lower than the S/N ratio on this list in December.
Like, negative????? :)
> In certain parts of Usenet, many people routinely advertise addresses at
> anon.penet (and similar services) in their .sigs (as Ed does) to make
> pseudonymized replies as convenient as possible. This is not a new phenomenon
My question was "why". I think I see the answer now. Thank you.
Happy New Year!
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