[8512] 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 (David Farber)
Sun Nov 21 14:49:32 1993
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 14:48:50 -0500
To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>, com-priv@psi.com, farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
Cc: julf@penet.fi
At 14:15 11/21/93 -0500, Dick St.Peters wrote:
>> 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
That means if someone subscribes to com-priv with an anonymous name ,
anyone who mails a message to com-priv will thus generate a message to that
name and BANG, the sender gets an anonymous (at least allegedly) anonymous
name. That is a BUG in the server. It should only assign such an anonymous
name if there is an exlicit instance of an anonymous name in a to or cc
field.
Dave
