[8542] 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 (Mark Boolootian)
Mon Nov 22 12:11:48 1993
From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 09:10:28 -0800 (PST)
Cc: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com, com-priv@psi.com, julf@penet.fi
In-Reply-To: <199311211948.OAA08999@linc.cis.upenn.edu> from "David Farber" at Nov 21, 93 02:48:50 pm
David Farber writes:
>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.
Julf suggested the mechanism for allowing an anonymous user to join a mailing
list and circumvent this problem: if user an12345@anon.penet.fi wants to join
the list, use na12345@anon.penet.fi instead (the "an" prefix indicates you
want your mail to come from an anonymous id; the "na" prefix says to send using
your real id). Then, any messages sent to the anonymous user will have the
real sender's id in them and an anonymous id will not be allocated.
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