On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07:33PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 10 Dec 2003 at 18:22, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. > > Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in > > it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all of it is > > from remailers posting to Usenet (or remailers sending mail > > to mail2news gateways), otherwise there's little point of > > using it. > > You do not need to use remailers to take advantage of > alt.anonymous.messages. If someone posts directly to > alt.anonymous. messages, still the adversary cannot tell who he > is posting to. (Assuming his recipient sets his newsagent to > always download all new messages)
Oh, that's true of course; but the adversary would be able to know that you posted something (given that he's monitoring your traffic). That's already something, and frequently more than you'd want to give away. I did inspect a few random messages and they all came from remailers. -- avva