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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Jan 31 18:17:31 1995

From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: rhaas@cygnus.arc.nasa.gov (Robert M. Haas)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 16:34:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199501311709.JAA20820@cygnus.arc.nasa.gov> from "Robert M. Haas" at Jan 31, 95 09:09:11 am

Robert wrote:

| BTW, if you have to use an anonymous remailer, why don't you use an
| anonymizing mailer that lets someone reply to the given address, so several
| thousand people don't have to read the answer to your question?

	Perhaps hes worried about people using the return address to
trace back?  Anonymous and pseudononymous mail are very different from
a traffic analysis standpoint.

	However, you're right, there are ways to get replies through
remailers that don't involve everyone on the list seeing the mail.

Adam


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