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Re: ANONYMOUS CONTACT SERVICE




> A few months ago, someone subscribed to the list through the Penet service,
> and it ended up revealing the Penet aliases of everyone who posted.  Each
> post was delivered to that subscriber marked as being from the Penet alias
> corresponding to the poster.  All it took was a parallel non-Penet subscripti
 > on
> to break the anonymity provided by Penet.
> 
> Has this now happened again?

Yes. I was contacted by the user who was the cause of this. He didn't
reaalize what would happen. He has now send an unsubscribe request.

> At the time, there was some discussion about using "an..." versus "na..."
> forms of the Penet aliases, one of which would avoid this revelation.  Has
> that been taken care of?

Evidently not. :-(

	Julf