[8532] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
This is what happens to you ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (an14191@anon.penet.fi)
Sun Nov 21 22:39:44 1993
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
From: an14191@anon.penet.fi
X-Anonymously-To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Reply-To: an14191@anon.penet.fi
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 03:39:09 UTC
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 ?
>
>--
>from Dave:
>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.
I think the solution is send the mail to naXXXX@anon.penet.fi
instead of anXXXX@anon.penet.fi.
(na mean Not anonymous)
So you will not assign anonymous id.
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