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NODE 0e910c0danonymous mail
This message routed through 8 remailers, sent around 11:50 CST 2/19/93:
pmantis -> soda -> alumni -> rebma -> rosebud -> mead -> shell -> buffalo

Actually, rewriting hop.mail and anon.mail in PERL might be a good idea...

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NODE e3462ff6anonymous mail
>>>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 1993 23:24:43 -0800, nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu said:
	nobody> Remailed-By: Tommy the Tourist <tommy@out>

	nobody> This message routed through 8 remailers, sent around
	nobody> 11:50 CST 2/19/93: pmantis -> soda -> alumni -> rebma
	nobody> -> rosebud -> mead -> shell -> buffalo

Are you sure? If that's true, then someone along the way is munging
the headers pretty badly, because my Received: lines show it going
from

pmantis -> toad.com -> me

--Strat, being a mailer weenie
NODE f047b514anonymous mail
Earlier, Bob Stratton wrote:

>Are you sure?  If that's true, then someone along the way is munging
>the headers pretty badly, because my Received: lines show it going
>from

>pmantis -> toad.com -> me


That's right, because each remailer attempts to discard as much of the
header as possible.  Otherwise it wouldn't be anonymous - if I were to
send a message to you through rosebud and the headers showed the path
from me to rosebud and rosebud to you, you'd know where the message
really came from!

So the header of an anonymously mailed message should make it look
like the message originated from the last hop.

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