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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: anonymous mail?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.002530.957@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 08:25:29 GMT
- References: <01GS5GWJYVCY8WW5SC@kopc.hhs.dk> <Stafford-101292164250@stafford.winona.msus.edu> <1992Dec11.143945.20535@linus.mitre.org> <Stafford-111292100559@stafford.winona.msus.edu>
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- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <Stafford-111292100559@stafford.winona.msus.edu>, Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
- > [...] We use a CAPTIVE account
- > in which the user is dropped into EDT to compose the message.
- > When the user exits, the file is checked to be sure it is
- > not empty then MAIL delivers it to the given professor
- > with a specific subject line (ANONYMOUS CLASS MAIL.)
-
- This is usually not all that anonymous. It is usually possible to figure out
- who sends mail via such an account by correlating the login/logout times for
- the processes in question with those associated with "real" users.
-
- The cagey sender of anonymous mail can get around this by sending the mail at
- times other than (for example) just after logging out of their "real" account.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
- Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
- Uucp: ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
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