NODE 6c7fce58Re: The Crisis with Remailers
"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>Thu, 23 May 1996 11:53:15 +0800
From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 22-MAY-1996 17:00:33.67
>Pointing people at legitimate uses of anonymity, as various folks have
>suggested, is undoubtedly a good idea. Would anyone care to suggest a few
>newsgroups where the vast majority of anonymous posts have really good
>reasons for being so?
While it isn't usage of true cypherpunk remailers, the sexual abuse
survivors newsgroup(s) would appear to be a place to start. Some of the groups
discussing human rights cases are also a possibility, as is
alt.religion.scientology.
-Allen
NODE 377bf049Re: The Crisis with Remailers
Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>Thu, 23 May 1996 17:57:47 +0800
On Wed, 22 May 1996, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
> From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 22-MAY-1996 17:00:33.67
>
> >Pointing people at legitimate uses of anonymity, as various folks have
> >suggested, is undoubtedly a good idea. Would anyone care to suggest a few
> >newsgroups where the vast majority of anonymous posts have really good
> >reasons for being so?
>
> While it isn't usage of true cypherpunk remailers, the sexual abuse
> survivors newsgroup(s) would appear to be a place to start. Some of the groups
> discussing human rights cases are also a possibility, as is
> alt.religion.scientology.
To those unfamiliar with the issues, ars is not a good example. At first,
it looks like a bunch of louts screaming.
I'd mention alt.revisionism, where anonymity is used and recognized by all
sides, usually responsibly (though that probably wasn't true before I
dropped in). It's the stupid skinheads configuring Netscape with
"anonymous" addresses that bug me; I usually find their real address and
tell them how to get a real remailer or freenet account.
Of course, to people who don't know what to filter, alt.revisionism also
looks like a bunch of louts screaming.
-rich