From: root@khijol.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Subject: monthly APS announcement
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:10:43 GMT

X-ANON-Version: 0.4

Announcing a new anonymous a.s.a.r. posting service!

This service, while not providing all of the services that the APS at
twwells.com does, provides an alternate anonymous posting service to
posters who wish to remain anonymous.

There are three main differences between this service and the APS at
twwells.com:

	1.	Email send to khijol!anonasar@saturn.upl.com is
		stripped of headers and .sig stuff, then forwarded
		to alt-sexual-abuse-recovery@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.
		Mail is never posted directly to the net.

	2.	Since all email is going through a common mailbox
		on khijol, it is impossible for anonymous posters
		to receive email through this service.  This is
		considered an additional safety feature.

	3.	Since khijol is not directly reachable from the
		Internet, and is not available via dialup lines,
		this makes it virtually immune to attack from
		unauthorized access.  Khijol has successfully
		survived a concerted attack by "crackers" intent
		on gaining access to the proprietary software base
		stored there, as well as the well-known "Morris
		worm" incident, and has been in more-or-less continuous
		service (via uucp access) for more than three years.

This message is being posted automatically through the APS.  The software
that runs this service (a single C source code file) has been posted to
alt.sources.  If you would like a free copy of the current source code,
send me (erc@apple.com) email, and I'll send the code to you.

The reason I'm distributing the code this way is (1) so I can devote more
time to writing software for Linux (a free UNIX clone; subscribe to
comp.os.linux if interested), (2) people can inspect the code and comment on
any security features, misfeatures, and bugs, and (3) so that others may
also easily set up their own APS services.  The code is commented, and
setup instructions are at the top of the code.  This allows others to
have alternate resources for posting anonymously.  One could even set the
software up on one's own machine, and no one would ever know where the
postings were coming from!

As an inspection of the source code will reveal, the headers are discarded.
No information is saved.  No temp files are written.  Unless the email
is inspected in the incoming box, it is impossible to discover who has
posted.  Of course, this could be defeated, but the very fact that this code
is being made available for public review (and use) guards against this.
It is conceviable that there could be dozens of APS services on a particular
newsgroup, each running this software, which would provide for multiple
anonymous pathways to netnews.  The software is easily modified to post to
other newsgroups.

No provisions have been made for censoring posts, although that could
not-so-easily be added if there was a consensus of opinion that a particular
poster was being abusive.  The problem, of course, being that since no
information is saved concerning the point of origin of a particular post, it
would be hard to censor posts, and that is not the intent of this software.
I'm somewhat of a personal liberty fan, and believe in giving folks as much
personal freedom as they can stand.  Sometimes that makes others uncomfortable,
and sometimes that trust is abused, but in the majority of cases, it works,
and works well.

This message will automatically be posted on the first of each month to
a.s.a.r.

--
To post to this newsgroup anonymously, send mail to khijol!anonasar@saturn.upl.com
To make sure you can reach the server, send mail to khijol!ping@saturn.upl.com
   with a valid "Reply-To:" header.
To reach the admin for this service, send mail to erc@apple.com

Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery