From: asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu
Subject: Using the alt.sexual.abuse.recovery Anonymous Posting Service 
Followup-To: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Reply-To: asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu
Organization: Anonymous Posting Service @ WPI
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:20:07 GMT

			INTRODUCTION TO THE 
    ALT.SEXUAL.ABUSE.RECOVERY ANONYMOUS POSTING SERVICE (APS)

Last update: Oct. 1, 1991

Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery is a newsgroup for posting messages about
recovery from sexual abuse.  It is not moderated. In order to provide
anonymity for those who wish it, an automated anonymous posting
service has been provided to allow anonymous posting to
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.

You are encouraged to use common sense and sensitivity when posting,
as this is a very emotional topic, especially for survivors, many of
whom have experienced severe trauma.  Articles advocating sex with
children, for example, will not be posted and will be returned to
sender.

NOTE: Throughout this article, e-mail addresses will be provided in
Internet form - someone@wpi.wpi.edu. If your mailer can't handle this
type of address, you can use uucp "bang-path" addresses:
...!uunet!wpi.wpi.edu!someone. You'll have to figure out how to get
e-mail to uunet on your own, but it's reachable from most places in
the Solar System. Ask your local e-mail guru.

HOW TO POST AN ARTICLE ANONYMOUSLY

** Send e-mail message to			To post to:
** ----------------------------------------------------------
** asar-post@wpi.wpi.edu		        All the World

The Subject: line of this message will become the Subject: line of the
article. A new header will be created for the article, with From: and
Reply-To: lines of the form "asar.123@wpi.wpi.edu". Nothing in the
header of the article will tell anything about who or where you are.
If your message has a signature in the standard form (beginning with a
line containing "--"), it will be deleted. There is no enforced limit
to the length of a message.

NOTE: The first time you send something to the APS, you are assigned
an alias of the form asar.[1-9999]@wpi.wpi.edu. As long as your From:
line contains the same information when it gets here, anything you
post or e-mail will appear to come from this alias. If you send
something that has a different line in From:, you will be assigned a
new alias. This includes mail sent from the same person but happened
to go through a different path to get to wpi.wpi.edu. Both aliases
will work. This may be a bug or a feature, depending on your point of
view.

You can give yourself a nickname by including a line like:

APS-Name: My nickname

in the first message (ping or post) you send to the APS service.  This
is intended to make it easier for people who read your messages to
remember who you are.  APS-Name: must be at the beginning of the line.
Anything after the ':' and one space will be your nickname.

*Each* time you put a "APS-Name:" line in your message, you will
receive a new alias number and nickname.

Suggestions For Anonymous Posting

1) The Subject: line of your article, should give some hint about why
you posted it.

2) Don't include phone numbers, street addresses, or e-mail addresses
in the body of the article. It sort of defeats the point of anonymous
posting, doesn't it? If your mailer automatically inserts such
information about you anywhere but in a properly formatted signature
or in the headers, get it fixed.

3) PLEASE don't post anonymous test messages to alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
just to find out what your alias would be if you posted a "real"
message.  Send a message to asar-ping (see below) instead.
These are suggestions. Not guidelines, not rules, not laws. You
can put anything you want in an article. It's your life.

REPLYING TO ANONYMOUS ARTICLES VIA E-MAIL

You can't.  You must *post* to alt.sexual.abuse.recovery or *post*
anonymously thru e-mailing to asar-post@wpi.wpi.edu  (Another
alternative is to set up an anonymous e-mail address through another
system such as that in alt.personals, and announce your anonymous
e-mail address in your postings.)

WHAT IF MY SITE DOESN'T CARRY ALT.SEXUAL.ABUSE.RECOVERY

You can still post your article as outlined above, but you can't read
yours or anyone else's postings.  You may send e-mail to
asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu to ask that administrator to contact your site
to request they subscribe.

PRIVACY AND SECURITY

I've done what I can to ensure that the identities of the users of the
Anonymous Posting Service will be kept private, but I can't make any
guarantees. I will not divulge the name of anyone using the service
without a court order, but there is always the possibility that someone
will successfully crack my system, or that someone will examine your
article before it gets here. Usenet is not totally private, and you use
this service at your own risk.

One of the things that happens fairly frequently on the net is 
bounced e-mail. It could be unpleasant if this happened to a message
destined for the APS. To make sure that you have a clean mail path,
you can send e-mail to "asar-ping@wpi.wpi.edu". This is a mail echo
system. When your message gets here (if it gets here), the system
will grab your return address and send you an e-mail message containing
your alias in the APS system and the header of your message as it
arrived here. If you don't get a reply with a Subject: line of
"APS ping reply", assume that either your message never got here,
or the reply went astray. In either case, you shouldn't try to use
the anonymous posting service. Try to find another e-mail path that
works first.

ADMINISTRIVIA

If you need to get in touch with a human being about problems with
the APS system, send e-mail to "asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu".

If, for some reason, you want to cancel an article you've posted, the
only way to do it (unless you're a superuser) is to send e-mail to
asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu and ask for it to be cancelled.  In many cases
however, cancel requests cannot be honored.  Your may have gotten to
hundreds of sites before I ever see your e-mail request.

-- 
To correspond with the APS administrator, send EMAIL to:
asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu			(non anonymous mail)
uunet!wpi.wpi.edu!{asar-admin}
--
To use this service, send EMAIL to:
Anonymous posting:			asar-post@wpi.wpi.edu
Test path/get alias:			asar-ping@wpi.wpi.edu
APS administrator:			asar-admin@wpi.wpi.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery