• "non-anonymous posting" (1994-08-12)

    From nobody@nobody@yamn.paranoici.org to alt.privacy.anon-server on Fri Aug 29 18:17:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy.anon-server


    *note: "post non-anonymously"/"post anonymously", cross-posted to a.p.a-s,
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    From: Matthew Ghio <gh...@kaiwan.com>
    Newsgroups: alt.anonymous,alt.anonymous.messages,alt.privacy.anon-server >Subject: Non-anonymous posting via my remailer
    Date: 12 Aug 1994 04:13:54 GMT
    Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
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    NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com
    Message-ID: <32esu2$cjc@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>

    By popular demand, I have added non-anonymous posting to my remailer.
    To post non-anonymously, send mail to gh...@kaiwan.com and either add the >header "Post-To" with the names of the newsgroups, or put on the first
    two lines:
    ::
    Post-To: alt.test,alt.anonymous.messages,alt.whatever
    You can still post anonymously using Anon-Post-To.
    [end quote]

    p.s. thirty-one years ago, and "alt.anonymous.messages" was already
    attracting attention, not only from prominent contributors but also
    from newcomers . . . and also of lurkers and "them", those that are
    only doing their duty, "they", "them" (kudos smothers brothers "who
    are they" <https://epguides.com/smothersbrotherscomedyhour/>, "they"
    were already watching, eavesdropping, snooping, spying, machinating
    against uncensored free expression in any form, especially with pgp
    and variously anonymous, quasi- and pseudo-nymous remailers gaining
    widespread appeal and next thing you know, "they" unleash operation
    eternal september, infiltration and occupation of usenet newsgroups collectively known as the "troll farm", which continues to this day)
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