From: smortaz (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: SCI Poster information [sci-poster]
Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:58:00 GMT
Organization: SCI Friends & Family, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel


Since Haji asked, here's the write up for the sci-posters...




       E-mail Read/Post access to Social.Culture.Iranian



sci-poster
----------

The "sci posters" provide access to the SCI newsgroup via E-mail.
For example if you do not have posting priviledges to SCI,
you can send a normal E-mail to:

	sci-poster@handel.sun.com

and your E-mail will be posted as a regular article to the
newsgroup.  Your name and E-mail address will appear in the
"From:" field of the article.  


sci-anon-poster
---------------

The anonymous poster works similarly to sci-poster, except that
it removes your name and address, and then posts to SCI.  The
filter also removes "standard" signatures from your msg, that
is, all lines after a line starting with a "--" in column one.
Be careful: for example if this msg was posted anonymously,
everything after the first "sci-poster" would have been
removed!


sci-anon-poster-ping
--------------------

Prior to posting anonymously, you should send a test message to
make sure your name and address are properly filtered out.
Sending an E-mail to this alias will send you a message back
showing how your message arrived and how it was filtered and
would be posted to SCI (it does not actually post to SCI).


sci-mailer-add
--------------

If you send an E-mail to this alias, you will start receiving
articles posted to SCI via E-mail.  This has been setup for
people who do not have access to news (or SCI), but have access
to E-mail.  The daemon that handles this wakes up once an hour
and sends the news messages which have been posted to SCI to
you.  If your site does not get news at all, using the sci-mailer
and sci-poster services effectively give you read/write access
to SCI.

>> If you know anyone (who'd like to read SCI) with access to 
>> E-mail, please forward this message to them!


sci-mailer-remove
-----------------

Sending an E-mail to this alias will remove your name from the
sci-mailer list.


Misc. Questions & Answers that have come up:
-------------------------------------------

> Is sci-anon-poster 100% secure?

No.  You should first send a test mail to sci-anon-poster-ping for a
check first (and to sci if you're really paranoid).  

> Will you censor people's posts?

No.  You can use this to call me fish face if you like.

> Will you know who the anonymous poster is?

No.  However, there's one rare exception: if for some strange reason
your message is bounced by inews, or, after filtering still
contains suspcious strings such as "From:" in its body, I'll have
to check it and repost it.  This is for your protection.

> What are your political religious/affiliations?

None.  Not too fond of fundamentalists or extremists of any kind,
but that's about it.  

Note: If you would like to setup an alias on your machine, so 
that you or your friends feel more comfortable about posting to 
SCI anonymously, pls drop me a line.


Credits: Anoosh (and ???) for starting a similar service a 
while back.  
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|E-mail *anonymous* posts to : sci-anon-poster@handel.sun.com
|E-mail regular posts to     : sci-poster@handel.sun.com
|E-mail anonymity checks to  : sci-anon-poster-ping@handel.sun.com
|E-mail problems to          : smortaz@handel.sun.com
|Anonymous posts: lines after '--' in col 1 are removed (signatures)
| 	    >> Test before posting anonymously! <<
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