dispatches from the front lines of anonymity

[Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>]

>A more important matter is the way the group should be implemented.
>Moderated or unmoderated doesn`t matter, as the server already knows how
>to send messages to moderated groups to the moderator. 

Actually, I was thinking that whistleblower@anon.penet.fi would _be_
the moderator.  Then you just post directly.  All the messages would
come from that address, and no id's would be assigned.  Since all
messages are from "whistleblower", replies to a poster go right back
out to the list, also anonymized.

It's actually a much simpler system than is currently implemented,
since id's arenit involved at all.

>Pros are that it would make it very hard to track down the real
>poster, cons that it would be impossible to tell the different
>posters from each other, thus not enabling informers to earn good or
>bad reputations, unless they include key signatures or something.

PGP 2.1 contains the cleartext-signature feature, and the periodic
posting to the list should mention this.  This allows a real pseudonym
to develop, just like we want.

Eric