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Re: Message pools _are_ in use today!
On 1 Jul 96 at 20:28, David Wagner wrote:
[..]
> Ian and I talked about this at some length. alt.anonymous.messages
> has certain unfortunate shortcomings.
> Someone sniffing the Berkeley 'net can tell when I receive an
> alt.anonymous.messages message by when I download an article from
> the NNTP server; they can tell when I send such an article by when
> I upload an article to the NNTP server; they can list all the
> ``subversive'' Berkeley folks who have read alt.anonymous.messages
> lately.
Uploading can be gotten around by using anonymous remailers and
mail-to-news gateways... although someone can tell if you send mail
to anonymous mailers.
Rob
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