From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!essick Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Re: Re inews - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.243 Posted: Thu Jul 15 11:26:34 1982 Received: Mon Jul 19 03:45:44 1982 #R:sdcsvax:-216600:uiucdcs:10900006:000:954 uiucdcs!essick Jul 15 10:33:00 1982 If an article is to be anonymous, then it should be completely anonymous. As long as there is a way to get back to the author the article is not anonymous. Someone will have the ability to follow that path and find out the author (after all, the reply had to get there). Using the idea of signing anonymous articles with some mail alias, I can probably figure out who the author is by sending him some mail, waiting for delivermail (or whatever mail facility is being used) to do its dirty work, and then see whose mailbox was touched. This would narrow things down to at most a few users. Of course, mailing to remote anonymous authors is a little more difficult to track down. I like the idea of anonymous notes. As Greg Davidson pointed out, the ability to make anonymous contributions is important. You just have to guarantee that the contributions are really anonymous. Ray Essick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign uiucdcs!essick