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From: fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu (Paul Fishwick)
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Subject: Anonymous Mail Methods
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Date: 7 Dec 89 21:59:08 GMT
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RE: Anonymous Postings Capability
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Several e-mail correspondents (of whom I am one) have the need to
vote on "best paper" suggestions. We feel that this voting process
should be completely anonymous, which means that we need some
mechanism for mailing to an address so that our identifications
are kept confidential. Does anyone have a cute shell script to
do this, or is there some existing address that will serve this
purpose for anonymous postings?

I can see that some anonymous postings could be used for malevolent
purposes such as flaming arbitrary people. However, for certain 
types of voting purposes, anonymous postings could be very useful.

I look forward to any thoughts or leads. Thanks

-paul

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