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Subject: Re: anonymous list
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:49:32 -0500
To: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Cc: Jason Helfman <jhelfman @ bizrate . com>, Majordomo-Users <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0009281443030.20212-100000@castro.queernet.org>

Why don't you do it with a web page that does not capture/disclose sender information?

This would be really easy for a suggestion box or internal news group, but could be easily exploited for anonymous peer criticisms.

A recipient mailbox with procmail/formail processing can rewrite headers too.

Sample procmail recipe for removing reply-to: header from mailing lists that force you to reply back to the list (that I use on several lists I am subscribed to);

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

:0:
* Reply-To: listname@some.domain
| `/usr/local/bin/formail -I Reply-To: -ds >> listname`

:0:
* ^Sender: owner-listname@some.domain
listname

This strips the reply-to header out of the message completely, and appends the resulting message to my listname folder, and if it gets through that test for some reason, (absence of Reply-To: line), the second rule makes sure it still ends up in the same
folder.

This same logic can be applied to other header lines "From:" perhaps, where the real address is replaced with anonymous, and a Reply-To: inserted to nobody@localhost, but this would all have to be manipulated pre-send rather than pre-receive.  Looks like
time to do some CGI scripting.  I am getting several ideas, but I really did not want to participate.  See what you did?!? <G>

Dan Liston

"Roger B.A. Klorese" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dan Liston wrote:
> > Sorry, I can see where this is leading, and I won't participate.
> 
> I'll bet you can't.
> 
> a) Suggestion boxes/internal rant groups.
> b) Anonymous peer counseling lists.
> 
> --
> ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                          rogerk@QueerNet.ORG
> PO Box 14309                                            San Francisco, CA 94114
> "There is only one real blasphemy -- the refusal of joy!"       -- Paul Rudnick



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