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[Anon] testrr

2007-11-15, 7:43 pm

This is a Type III anonymous message, sent to you by the F.L.U.G.
(Firenze Linux User Group) mixminion server at firenze.linux.it. If
you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact antani-
admin@firenze.linux.it. For more information about anonymity, see
https://remailer.firenze.linux.it or
https://e-privacy.firenze.linux.it.

Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Is it possible to post to newsgroups with mixminion? I'm not sure how to
> do it anymore. Last year there was an m2n gateway that could be emailed
> to but it seems to have disappeared. Thanks!
>

NG posting is, I think, already written into unreleased code
and may be in the next (alpha4?) release. I'm posting this
with 0.0.8alpha3.

Use (with appropriate date)

- --to=mail2news-20071115-alt.privacy.anon-server@m2n.mixmin.net

mail2news-20071115-alt.test@anon.lcs.mit.edu was dead the
last time I tried.

with the appropriate group(s) instead of this one. Multiple
groups up to 3 or 5 separated by commas and no spaces, I
added alt.test.a here to see if that works.

My only problem with mixmin.net is that I can't post to some
needed groups and I don't know what good m2n's there are,
where they might all be listed in a single and up to date
file, or how to find out what groups they post to :-(((

I'm just a clueless end user but I prefer no front ends so I
run mixminion against an intended message-body text file
from within a bash script. The subject header is hard to deal
with unless using only basic ascii.

But while here [if this one makes it] I would like to see..

Mixmin and mixmaster remailers adopt some switch to request
nodelay processing i.e. --delay=0 or something.

More mixmaster remailers with from headers. The other day I
tested out all of them and only two made it. It so happens
that the fastest and most reliable ones don't (maybe that's
how they manage to remain fast and reliable).

m2n's that don't post to some groups could maybe forward to
ones that do?

#!/bin/bash
#
holdit=20s;
# stage the -t string \$fulltostring
m2nstring1="mail2news-";
datestring=`date +%Y%m%d`;
groupstring="-alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.test.a";
emailstring="@m2n.mixmin.net";
fulltostring=$m2nstring1$datestring$grou
pstring$emailstring;
#
infile=/yourpath/bodyfile.txt;
#
/yourpath/bin/mixminion send \
- -P "*2" \
- --to=$fulltostring \
- --download-directory=yes \
- --input=$infile \
- --from="testrr" \
- --references="<f651959c41974880675a1f7a94318004@dizum.com>" \
- --in-reply-to="<f651959c41974880675a1f7a94318004@dizum.com>" \
- --subject="Re: newsgroups and mixminion"
#
sleep $holdit;
# end

Zax

2007-11-16, 7:15 am

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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:35:09 +0100 (CET), [Anon] testrr wrote in
Message-Id: <20071116013509.10C823FEE5B@mail.firenze.linux.it>:

> My only problem with mixmin.net is that I can't post to some
> needed groups and I don't know what good m2n's there are,
> where they might all be listed in a single and up to date
> file, or how to find out what groups they post to :-(((

Which groups are you having problems with?

Posting a list of allowed groups is easy enough, it's just very big.

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Anonymous

2007-11-16, 7:11 pm

> This is a Type III anonymous message, sent to you by the F.L.U.G.
> (Firenze Linux User Group) mixminion server at firenze.linux.it.
> [...]

Seems that somebody got rid of the --ANONYMOUS MESSAGE--- lines
at the begin and end of your posting.. do you know if this is a
feature by antani or by m2n.mixmin.net?

[Anon] testrr

2007-11-16, 7:11 pm

[Anon] testrr

2007-11-16, 7:11 pm

this time using \ in "<fhjnn2\$8cf\$1@bananasplit.info>" :-)

Zax wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:35:09 +0100 (CET), [Anon] testrr wrote in
> Message-Id: <20071116013509.10C823FEE5B@mail.firenze.linux.it>:
>
>
> Which groups are you having problems with?
>
> Posting a list of allowed groups is easy enough, it's just very big.

>

Forgot to use = as a group separator. No problems for now. I'll
try to copy this one to alt.tes.a as well just for experience :-)

Sometime last year I ran into a remailer config file that was
blacklisting one or more groups for no reason that I could think
of. It would probably be shorter to list blocked groups on some
centralized stats page and that would also be a good place to show
all operational m2n gateways and any peculiarities like various
separators used & whatnot. It's all for naught in the end since
mixminion will eventually do its own postings, maybe with repliable
surbs even, but that's still years down the road.

nobody@nefarion.winstonsmith.info

2007-11-16, 7:11 pm

This is a Type III anonymous message sent you through the Mixminion
server 'Nefarion'. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages
through this server, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info and
your email address will promptly be added to the list of disallowed
recipients. Please note that the Mixminion anonymity network is
designed in a way such that there is no viable means of tracking the
sender of a message, so blacklisting your address is really the best
_anyone_ can do. Do not reply to this email "as it is" since its
sender is fictitious and obviously not related to the person who
actually sent the message. To learn more about the experimental
Mixminion network and internet anonymity in general, please start at
http://mixminion.net

In article <20071117001240.A869E3FE78D@mail.firenze.linux.it>
"[Anon] testrr" <nobody@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
>
> This is a Type III anonymous message, sent to you by the F.L.U.G.
> (Firenze Linux User Group) mixminion server at firenze.linux.it. If
> you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact antani-
> admin@firenze.linux.it. For more information about anonymity, see
> https://remailer.firenze.linux.it or
> https://e-privacy.firenze.linux.it.
>
>
> Anonymous wrote:
>
> The originating post, yeah, I noticed. I don't know, I 'think' it's
> the exit node that decides, same as for mixmaster remailers. That's
> another thing that could go up on a centralized stats page the way
> that mixmaster stats show from headers. And that [Anon] should go
> after the handle not before. I'm going to exit tghis one through
> antani to see how they do it :-)

Actually the removal of the ---ANONYMOUS MESSAGE--- lines is a
feature of m2n.mixmin.net.

[Anon] testrr

2007-11-17, 1:12 am

This is a Type III anonymous message sent you through the Mixminion
server 'Nefarion'. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages
through this server, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info and
your email address will promptly be added to the list of disallowed
recipients. Please note that the Mixminion anonymity network is
designed in a way such that there is no viable means of tracking the
sender of a message, so blacklisting your address is really the best
_anyone_ can do. Do not reply to this email "as it is" since its
sender is fictitious and obviously not related to the person who
actually sent the message. To learn more about the experimental
Mixminion network and internet anonymity in general, please start at
http://mixminion.net

nobody@nefarion.winstonsmith.info wrote:

>
> Actually the removal of the ---ANONYMOUS MESSAGE--- lines is a
> feature of m2n.mixmin.net.
>

Most excellent. None of this stuff should be in there at all and I
don't mean to sound cheeky (I do respect the remailers' grounds for
protecting themselves). But if "whoever@nowhere [Anon]" appears in
the message list from column and someone doesn't pick that up right
there, then I think his/her credibility in demanding/expecting any
other authorship disclaimer or autentication is already shot to pieces
anyway.

Anonymous Sender

2007-11-19, 1:15 am

> It's all for naught in the end since
> mixminion will eventually do its own postings, maybe with repliable
> surbs even, but that's still years down the road.

Quoting somebody else: "NG posting is, I think, already written into
unreleased code and may be in the next (alpha4?) release."

Borked Pseudo Mailed

2007-11-19, 1:15 pm

>> Actually the removal of the ---ANONYMOUS MESSAGE--- lines is a
> Most excellent. None of this stuff should be in there at all and I
> don't mean to sound cheeky (I do respect the remailers' grounds for
> protecting themselves)

Rumour has it there's already code written to make this configurable by
each exit remailer admin, and this might come with the next release.

2007-11-27, 1:17 am

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Borked Pseudo Mailed <nobody@pseudo.borked.net> wrote in
news:792401add9032c7d2a6af8ada1622f3f@ps
eudo.borked.net:

>
> Rumour has it there's already code written to make this configurable
> by each exit remailer admin, and this might come with the next
> release.

I've seen mention of it on the ortalk list, along with some additional
header support for newsgroups. Now if all this will result in a win32
build when that version gets released

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