Anon remailer to USENET gate bogus

I have been experimenting the past few days with anon remailer to USENET 
gateway systems to see what the results would be -- nada. I used Chael's 
BSU system (nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) to attempt a usenet post which never 
(magically?) appeared in the desired group (alt.privacy, I believe). I 
waited for several days for the post, but nada, zilch, zero. I retried 
the bsu remailer with a test message to make sure it was still active, 
and yes, it seemed to work perfectly. My guess is that the usenet gateway 
at utexas refuses anon e-mail. Anyone got any other suggestions? I 
haven't tried any other gateways -- yet.

Cheers.

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         I love my country, but I fear its government.

> I have been experimenting the past few days with anon remailer to USENET 
> gateway systems to see what the results would be -- nada. I used Chael's 
> BSU system (nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) to attempt a usenet post which never 
> (magically?) appeared in the desired group (alt.privacy, I believe). I 
> waited for several days for the post, but nada, zilch, zero. I retried 
> the bsu remailer with a test message to make sure it was still active, 
> and yes, it seemed to work perfectly. My guess is that the usenet gateway 
> at utexas refuses anon e-mail. Anyone got any other suggestions? I 
> haven't tried any other gateways -- yet.

You're right.  Fletcher Mattox disabled anonymous posts a while back. :(
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>
>I have been experimenting the past few days with anon remailer to USENET 
>gateway systems to see what the results would be -- nada. I used Chael's 
>BSU system (nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) to attempt a usenet post which never 
>(magically?) appeared in the desired group (alt.privacy, I believe). I 
>waited for several days for the post, but nada, zilch, zero. I retried 
>the bsu remailer with a test message to make sure it was still active, 
>and yes, it seemed to work perfectly. My guess is that the usenet gateway 
>at utexas refuses anon e-mail. Anyone got any other suggestions? I 
>haven't tried any other gateways -- yet.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Paul Ferguson               |  "Government, even in its best state,

Paul,

     I have seen several bounces from the utexas server because there
was no Subject for the posting, you need to put a subject line in the
pasted header like so:

::
Request-Remailing-To: alt-test@utexas.whatever...
Subject: this is a test
Organization: there

[body]

     Good luck, but that's what the error message said, there's nothing
about anonymity in the bounce, though.

Chael

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