On 7 May 2001, Kevin Parris wrote: > Just exactly who are you wanting to be able to hide from - only other > subscribers, or from them and owners too? In other words, what degree > of anonymity is really required, and who can you trust to know the > truth? The listowners can know the truth. Subscribers sometimes need to post without other subscribers knowing who they are. It's an adoption list (Guatemala-Adopt). Sometimes people need to post a question in a way that protects their child's privacy. Other times they may want to prevent their adoption agency (who may also be a list member) from hassling them for asking a perfectly reasonable question. > I haven't looked at the functions list for the exits described in the > Developer's Guide, but it just might be possible that LSOFT has > provided a way in there for you to chop out or modify parts of messages > as they go through the server. We could do that but if it takes that level of effort it's probably too much. I haven't yet looked into using anonymous remailers for this purpose, that was next after exhausting LISTSERV options. I might also be able to automate it using Pegasus filtering rules, and just do it on my email client. The biggest reason I want to sort it out is I want to eliminate the reasons people may have for using false names on the list, so we can then really enforce (as best one can do it) a consistent "real names" policy. ----- Tom Rawson [log in to unmask]