Subject: Anonymous

From: Shadowfire <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:20:11 -0500

Does anybody know how to configure pine so that I can be anonymous 
instead of my e-mail address showing in the from field?

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 18:03:10 -0500

> instead of my e-mail address showing in the from field?

    Use an anonymous remailer. 

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:34:01 -0700 (MST)

> > instead of my e-mail address showing in the from field?

In Pine's Main Menu, hit s for setup and choose Config.
The first two lines in the config menu are for 'Personal Name' 
(fingername equivalent) and 'user domain' (server name).  Modifying these 
two fields will create an alias (read: fake) address.
What I'd suggest is that you check with your provider or sysadmins before 
you do this.  Here, it's considered illegal to use a 'fraudulent' email 
address and is grounds for the user getting their account suspended.

Be careful.

Lea

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From: Jim Esten <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 07:49:38 -0600 (CST)

> instead of my e-mail address showing in the from field?
.......does anyone care?  What are you hiding from?

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From: Shadowfire <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:20:13 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Jim Esten wrote:

>I'm not hiding from anything, occasionally I come across a Missing Host 
in some newsgroups, and I was just curious how people did it.

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 17:55:08 +0000

> instead of my e-mail address showing in the from field?

Without recompiling pine, the user cannot modify the from line.

But modifying the from line would not really achive anonymity.
To send mail anonymously you should use an anonymous remailer.
I don't really know the details, but you can go to
   http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/ 
for more detail

-jeff

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From: "Mika O. Pyyhkala (617) 655-8910" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:14:41 -0500

Another consideration is the following:
While you can modify your "personal name," and
"domain," your real address still may be displayed.  For example, at 
Boston College, if we change our domain and personal name, what you enter 
will show up.  However, if you pull up expanded header information (with 
h while reading a message), there is a slot in their where it shows your 
actual "real," from address; regardless of any change you make.  I am not 
familiar with how this is pulled up, or if there is a way to change it.  

Another option is the use of anonymous remailers, which strip out return 
address info.  Send a message to [email-masked] for info.  This is an 
auto responder, so it doesn't matter what is in your subject or message 
body.  Keep in mind, though, that like most things, these systems are not 
fullproof.  Your system administrator, in theory, could still see your 
outgoing mail to the anonymous server.  I guess it depends on exactly 
what you are sending the anonymous mail for, and to whom; how concerned 
you should be.

Regards,
Mika Pyyhkala