[8511] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: This is what happens to you if you send a message to com-priv I guess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Nov 21 14:26:27 1993
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 93 14:15:35 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: com-priv@psi.com, farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
Cc: julf@penet.fi
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
> This happened to me right after I posted a note to com-priv and it has
> happened to others Craig, Gordon . Why? and how do we stop this?
> You have sent a message using the anonymous contact service.
> You have been allocated the code name xxxxxx. [deleted till I can delete it]
> You can be reached anonymously using the address
> xxxxxx@anon.penet.fi.
Julf Helsingius <julf@penet.fi> runs a service to allow people to
communicate anonymously. Apparently, if you send a message to someone
at their anonymous ID and you don't have one, the server assigns you
one so it can protect your identity as well as that of the anonymous
person receiving your message. If someone subscribes anonymously,
everybody who posts gets one of these messages.
Have I got that right, Julf ?
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
