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From: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anonymous mail
Message-ID: <762@axis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 04:50:02 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.762
Posted: Fri Nov 14 04:50:02 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 00:15:49 EST
References: <387@cullvax.UUCP> <5357@cbrma.UUCP> <499@fai.UUCP>
Reply-To: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Organization: Axis Digital, 135 rue d'Aguesseau, Boulogne, 92100, FRANCE
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In article <499@fai.UUCP> stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes:
>In article <5357@cbrma.UUCP> ask@cbrma.UUCP (A.S.Kamlet(Art)) writes:
>>In article <387@cullvax.UUCP> news@cullvax.UUCP (Mail and USENET News System maintenance account) writes:
>>>We are considering putting in an 'anonymous mail' facility, for use as
>>>a suggestion box.  The question is, is there an easy/known way to
>>>implement it.

>Here's an even simplier suggestion -- write a simple script like the following
>which temporarily changes the environmental variables and then sets them
>back.  The following works under system 5.  It may have to be modified
>for BSD:
>------------------------------cut here and save-------------------------------
>
>SAVE1='LOGNAME'
>SAVE2='NAME'
>LOGNAME="proper\!unknown\!poster"
>NAME="I. A. M. Anonymous"
>export LOGNAME NAME
>mailx $1
>LOGNAME='SAVE1'
>NAME='SAVE2'
>export LOGNAME NAME

Of course, you could always do it as follows:

LOGNAME=Anonymous NAME="who ?" mailx $1

Philip