[66637] in Cypherpunks
Re: Newsgroup proposal: misc.anonymous
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Anonymous MacDonald)
Fri Sep 27 02:47:14 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:22:02 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Anonymous MacDonald <remailer@cypherpunks.ca>
"Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com> writes:
> In an effort to get anonymity and message pools more widespread, I think it
> would be a good idea to establish a newsgroup for anonymous message pools that
> would get the same distribution as any other newsgroup in the "big 8". The
> "misc" hierarchy is probably the best place for such a newsgroup since it
> already carries groups like "misc.misc" and "misc.test". Does anyone have any
> suggestions or objections?
This sounds like a good idea. I would certainly vote for such a news
group. Should the name be misc.anonymous or misc.anonymous.messages?
Are alt.anonymous and alt.anonymous.messages basically to different
newsgroups for exactly the same purpose, or is there some difference
between them.
