Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cubsvax!rocky2!rna!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!ulysses!burl!hou3c!Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: network etiquette Message-ID: <482@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 16:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.482 Posted: Fri Apr 13 16:20:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Apr-84 07:05:02 EST References: <51632@QZCOM> Reply-To: Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA, Message_Group_at_BRL%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Lines: 37 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cmcl2.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: cmcl2!floyd!harpo!ulysses!burl!hou3c!Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Jacob_Palme_QZ@QZCOM.MAILNET Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: network etiquette Message-ID: <51634@QZCOM> Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 16:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.482 Posted: Fri Apr 13 16:20:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Apr-84 16:28:50 EST References: <51632@QZCOM> Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Reply-To: Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA, Message_Group_at_BRL%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Lines: 18 To: Message_Group_at_BRL%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA, msggroup@BRL.ARPA Cc: "Elaine Kerr" <114%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>, "Murray Turoff" <103%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>, "Roxanne Hiltz" <120%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> In-Reply-To: <51632@QZCOM> What is the opinion in the Arpanet mail community towards anonymous and pseudonymous messages? I have noted some messages without any FROM field, but I guess this was probably not any intentionaly anonymity. The SMTP sender cannot be avoided, but of course you could make it into . EIES are using anonymity, especially with pen names, quite a lot and claim that it has great advantages in certain applications where people would otherwise be too shy. COM allows anonymity, but it is not widely used. The COM-RFC-mail interface does not allow sending out anonymous entries, mainly because we must know the author to know whom to bill. This could be modified, since the author name can be found in the data base, even if it is not readable to users. We have been discussing to allow anonymity only in special conferences (Arpanet jargon: Mailing lists) where all entries are anonymous.