There are 46 messages totalling 3427 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Access to free newsgroups (2) 2. POPing web-based email: Part 2 3. Interbot Service files 4. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics (2) 5. Create and operate Bank account throught my E-Mail (or INternet) 6. What is MAPI worm? (2) 7. Mysterious reference (2) 8. Protecting files (2) 9. Requests to Yahoo! people search by the e-mail (2) 10. roundabout access to www4 11. decoding from base 64 to Internet Mail 12. internet for poor, membership decline, graphics via email 13. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14. Subject: Introduction (2) 15. I'm for the statistics 16. Attachments - Opening 17. Help 18. Rusiian in [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2) 19. About list membership... 20. News and www mirror 21. thank you gerry 22. Net stats 23. FCC ID translator (2) 24. <No subject given> 25. search engines 26. KFS Search (was: search engines) 27. keyboard layout (2) 28. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Large posting) (2) 29. MIME format? (2) 30. new user (was blank) 31. NEWS: Search engines by email FAQs 32. NEWS: Russian 8.3 version of "Accessing The Internet By Email" 33. Assembly language 34. (Correction) RE: Interbot Service files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:49:49 +0100 From: Duncan Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Access to free newsgroups I was wondering how I can access newsgroups through my current connection (apart from deja.com and any other web based servers) . I tried pubnews.demon.co.uk but it took forever to connect and now when it does connect I get disconnected immediately. I hope somebody can help or maybe give me the name of another free server. I use outlook express and am connected through x-stream.co.uk if that's any help. Cheers from Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:33:46 +0100 From: Duncan Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: POPing web-based email: Part 2 have got my computer set up using Windows 98 with multiple users, this allows Outlook express to be set up with independant settings. Also I use x-stream which is a free ISP which allows me to make multiple user names and e-mail addresses for free. I then set up Outlook express to work with each seperate e-mail account. >From Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 05:26:00 +0100 From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Interbot Service files Thanks, Willy! My dream about it becoming user-supported finally seems to be taking off! :-) Steve Harris - Net Services Fast modem but slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ or mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say: get file mrcooli.exe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 06:01:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Mon 5 Jul 1999, posted Tue, 06 Jul 1999 05:00:44 GMT Less than 1 hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-4 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-10 hours None More than 10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] Response within 4 hours in at least 5 out of 7 recent tests [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't reply to .net or .com addresses. This data is generated automatically around 0600 GMT/BST most days. The performance reported is dependant on many factors and your experience may vary. You can also access this list: On the Web at http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/stats.htm (We recently discontinued the copy available via FTP) Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say "get file stats.txt" (no quotes) Want this list every day? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of your message put "join statistics" (no quotes) No liability is accepted for inaccuracies. Mirroring, links to and copying of this entire file (not extracts) is permitted until further notice. Slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! See http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ Copyright Net Services 1999. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:11:05 +0400 From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Create and operate Bank account throught my E-Mail (or INternet) HI ACCMAILers ! Does Anybody knows any BANK, where i CAn: 1 Create free account throught INternet. 2 Opereate my Acconut throught INternet. May be i can do it throught my E-Mail ?? It very interest . Many people search such Bank service for opening Account. 5 people e-mail to me and we associated to find this Bank service, but now find nothing. PLS if somebody can help to us , email to discuss. BANK throught INtenet... Yes or NO. ??!!! Alexey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:05:51 +0430 From: Babak Memari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: What is MAPI worm? What is MAPI worm? Babak ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 05:46:24 EDT From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mysterious reference Gerry Boyd refers to last weekend's fiasco at geocities, which caused him to have doubts about his own domain. It is widely written that "If anything can go wrong, it will." (Murphy's Law) So what went wrong? If it happened to our moderator, couldn't it happen to anyone else? David Ames -- My free E-mail does not support attachments or messages greater than 64K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:44:32 PDT From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Protecting files }Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:43:36 -0400 }From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ismael_Mart=EDnez_C=E1rdenas?= } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> } }How can I protect a folder in my computer so that another else cannot open it. }Ismael } }------------------------------ Generally, you can't! The best you can do is to create an encrypted version, then secure-erase (not just "erase" or DEL, that only frees it from the directory and makes the space used available) before deleting. -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel. --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:51:33 +0300 From: Dimitry Korolkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Requests to Yahoo! people search by the e-mail Dear friends, is there any possibility to send the requests - in order to find e-mail adress - to service "Yahoo! People Search" by the e-mail (similary to the questions to the search engines)? And setting of advanced-search options (country, company and so on) - is that possible to do for the e-mail only user? Thank you very much in advance! With the best regards, Dimitry. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:52:35 PDT From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: roundabout access to www4 }Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:53:33 -0400 }From: mike fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> } }is it possible to send one's requests }to the www4mail servers etc }through another email address, }avoiding firewalls at one's home server? } }i am imagining a service that allows one to }send it an email with another address in the sub, }and have it automatically forwarded }to that address, with the return address }of the forwarded message being the original sender } }mike } }------------------------------ Some anon servers allow this form of operation, but are they also restricted? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:17:25 PDT From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: decoding from base 64 to Internet Mail }Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 18:02:47 +0500 }From: fursat maskan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> } }Hi ! Accmail ! }How can I decode messages that were coded by base 64 ? }and I can read them from Internet Mail or are there any programms that }decodes }messages like these or understand. Where I can get these programms ? } }------------------------------ uudeview tends to decode anything I toss at it. It is slower than some others, but... simtelnet/msdos/decode/uudvd05d.zip B 117899 970304 UUDeview: Smart UU/XX/Base64/BinHex en/decoder Other DOS decoders will be in the same directory. For windows 3, there is simtelnet/win3/encode/ I do not know the paths in the NT and W9x archives. I do not recognize .uz off hand, so here is the full simtelnet mirrors.txt file: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simtel Info) Subject: List of Simtel.Net authorized mirror sites (revised 19990517) Keywords: simtel,msdos,win3,win95,win98,freeware,shareware,archive Simtel.Net is a worldwide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain programs for MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95/98. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/ is the primary distribution site for these collections. FTP.Simtel.Net is actually three ftp sites arranged in a rotating pattern of IP addresses to help balance the load and to avoid access problems due to network outages and simultaneous user limits. At the present time ftphost.simtel.net, ftp.ou.edu and ftp.cdrom.com are the primary sites. Our files are located in the /pub/simtelnet directory tree on these hosts. The following sites are authorized mirrors of Simtel.Net as of the time of this posting. This list will be updated as new sites are added. Country URL (host and directory path) --------- ------------------------------------------------- US, ALL (primary) ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet US, Arizona ftp://ftp.datacanyon.com/pub/simtelnet US, California ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet US, California ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/pc/simtelnet US, Georgia ftp://ftp.peachnet.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet US, Illinois ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/pc/simtelnet US, Massachusetts ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet US, Michigan ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet US, Missouri ftp://galileo.galilei.com/pub/simtelnet US, New York ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/systems/simtelnet US, Oklahoma ftp://ftp.ou.edu/pub/simtelnet US, Oregon ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/simtelnet US, Pennsylvania ftp://ftp.epix.net/pub/simtelnet US, Pennsylvania ftp://ftphost.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet US, Virginia ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/simtelnet Australia ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/simtelnet Australia ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/pc/simtelnet Australia ftp://ftp.tas.gov.au/pub/simtelnet Austria, Vienna ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/mirror/simtelnet Belgium ftp://ftp-public.linkline.be/pub/simtelnet Brazil ftp://ftp.iis.com.br/pub/simtelnet Brazil ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/simtelnet Bulgaria ftp://ftp.eunet.bg/pub/simtelnet Canada, Alberta ftp://ftp.telusplanet.net/pub/simtelnet Canada, Ottawa ftp://ftp.crc.ca/pub/systems/ibmpc/simtelnet Canada, Vancouver ftp://ftp.direct.ca/pub/simtelnet Chile ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/Mirror/simtelnet Czech Republic ftp://ftp.eunet.cz/pub/simtelnet Czech Republic ftp://ftp.zcu.cz/pub/simtelnet Czech Republic ftp://pub.vse.cz/pub/simtelnet Denmark ftp://ftp.net.uni-c.dk/pub/simtelnet Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/mirrors/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet France ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/pub/simtelnet France ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.uni-magdeburg.de/pub/mirrors/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/simtelnet Germany ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/pc/mirrors/Simtel.net Germany ftp://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/pc/simtelnet Greece ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/pc/simtelnet Hong Kong ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/simtelnet Hong Kong ftp://ftp.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/simtelnet Hong Kong ftp://ftp.hkstar.com/pub/simtelnet Hong Kong ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/simtelnet Hungary ftp://ftp.iif.hu/pub/simtelnet Ireland, Dublin ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/simtelnet Ireland, Dublin ftp://ftp.iol.ie/pub/simtelnet Italy ftp://cis.uniroma2.it/simtelnet Italy ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/pub/simtelnet Italy ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/simtelnet Italy ftp://mcftp.mclink.it/pub/simtelnet Japan ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/simtelnet Japan ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/simtelnet Japan ftp://ftp.saitama-u.ac.jp/pub/simtelnet Japan ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/PC/simtelnet Japan ftp://ftp.web.ad.jp/pub/simtelnet Latvia ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/mirror/simtelnet Malaysia ftp://ftp.jaring.my/pub/simtelnet Mexico ftp://ftp.gdl.iteso.mx/pub/simtelnet Netherlands ftp://ftp.euro.net/d5/simtelnet Netherlands ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror/simtelnet Norway ftp://ftp.bitcon.no/pub/simtelnet Poland ftp://ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl/pub/mirror/Simtel.Net Poland ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/simtelnet Poland ftp://ftp.man.poznan.pl/pub/simtelnet Portugal ftp://ftp.ip.pt/pub/simtelnet Portugal ftp://ftp.ua.pt/pub/simtelnet Romania, Bucharest ftp://ftp.digiro.net/pub/simtelnet Romania, Timisoara ftp://ftp.dnttm.ro/pub/simtelnet Russia ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/simtelnet Singapore ftp://ftp.nus.sg/pub/simtelnet Singapore ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/pub/systems/simtelnet Slovakia ftp://ftp.uakom.sk/pub/simtelnet Slovenia ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/simtelnet South Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/simtelnet South Africa ftp://ftp.netactive.co.za/pub/simtel South Africa ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/simtelnet South Africa ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/simtelnet South Korea ftp://ftp.sogang.ac.kr/pub/simtelnet South Korea ftp://sunsite.snu.ac.kr/pub/simtelnet Spain ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/simtelnet Sweden ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet Switzerland ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/simtelnet Taiwan ftp://ftp.ncu.edu.tw/Packages/simtelnet Taiwan ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw/mirror/simtelnet Thailand ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/simtelnet UK, London ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/simtelnet UK, London ftp://ftp.easynet.net/pub/simtelnet UK, London ftp://ftp.globalnet.co.uk/pub/simtelnet UK, Lancaster ftp://mic5.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/simtelnet UK, London ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/simtelnet Keith Petersen, General Manager of Simtel(tm) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ Uucp: uunet!simtel.net!w8sdz ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel. --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:22:21 +0400 From: Andrei Savin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: internet for poor, membership decline, graphics via email Hello. I'll comment on 3 pieces of text from different letteres found in digest 187. These are the pieces of text: ----- >> P.S. Do you know that russian computer magazine "Computerra" wrote >> about you? >>The article "Internet for the Poor" :-) >>If you are interested, #23 ( 8 June 1999) ----- As an aside, the membership continues to decline. As of today, 2,484 members. First time below 2,500 since I can remember. Must be everybody is getting full access and has no need to access the 'net by email methods. I guessed this was going to happen but wondered how long it would take. I guess year 1999 is it. When I took over the list in Oct 1997 we had over 3,000 -- most of the decline has been this year. We had over 2,800 in Jan 1999. ----- Email is a text-based medium hence if you want to do things by email methods, it's a safe money bet that they will be done in text. Why accmailers persist in trying to get graphics is beyond my understanding. I don't have any fasination with them at all. ----- The ideas in these letters are related. 1. Internet via e-mail is not for poor. It's a narrow to escape ISP policy. In Russia ISP want to pipe money from us not investing them to the quality of Internet chanels. Examples: 1) One ISP charges up to $ 1 per hour but the "real" cps is 0-3 bytes (Of course, ssometimes there are jumps to 1-1,5 kb per sec). 2) Another ISP charges $ 1 per hour plus $ 1 per meg. The "real" cps is 2-4 kb per sec. 3) One internet cafe charges >$ 2, but the "real" cps is 1 kb per sec. 4) Very little universities are connected to internet. Those who are connected have 0,1-2 kb per sec. It means that you pay a lot but get slow internet. In this situation it's better to use inet via email because you connect only with your mailbox and have 1-3 kb per sec (It's clear your connection is not slowed down by different networks - you are directly connected with your mailbox located in your sity). Of course, I'll read "Internet for poor" in Russian magazine and I'll tell accmailers what is there. But I'll not trust and admire with the editor of the mazagine who sits with 3 other guys on "fast" inet connection. Also terms "poor" and "rich" are unfair. For example, if somebody is a teacher, if works 8 hours a day, if gets $ 16, whom should he blame that he is poor and doesn't have enough to pay for internet and doesn't want to pay for slow connect. I am ashamed with those Russians who write such articles :(((((((((( 2. About declining of members. Gerald suggested the reason that member get full access and dissappers from accmail. I suggest another possibility: maybe they lost ANY connection at all. Maybe they don't have access to any net right now. Maybe there are sanctions against their contry and email is blocked to their country (we saw a problem of accmailer from Cuba). 3. Gerald, I'll try to explain why accmailer want graphics via email. Same answer as in section 1 above. It's cheap because it's faster to download bytes from mailbox located 10 miles of cable from you (i.e. from your provider) in comparisson with downloading bytes from abroad (i.e. via different servers and networks). PS I wonder if anybody from Computeraa is reading us? I think they should appologize. Bye, Andrei ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:08:10 +0400 From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HI ACCMAILers ! Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] work ??? May there are some Like services at Internet ??? I test [EMAIL PROTECTED] but get Nothing ... Bye, bye. Mail to me !!! 06.07.99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:47:01 -0400 From: Cargo/ GMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Subject: Introduction Subject: Introduction I am sending you the following brief summary of my background and activities including the formation of Marketeers and Associates International. I spent a good deal of my career working in the field of transportation primarily in the area of international shipping. Most of my experience was gained while working for a large Moving Company which offered varied services such as freight forwarding, transportation brokerage, van line and warehousing, and domestic and international shipping. I worked in all areas such as sales, operations, and management. I also gained some international work exposure when I was in Germany and had occasion to travel through Western Europe while I was growing up. Consequently, I speak some French and am conversant in German. During the course of working, I always sought to broaden my education and knowledge in the field of international trade and Marketing. I acquired professional selling skills and became certified in marketing. I am a member of Sales and Marketing Executives International and the National Association of Manufacturing Agents. I am also on the founding committee of the International Business Alumni of Baruch College. As an independent contractor, I was involved with a variety of projects: Built a domestic network of agents to support the handling of origin and destination services for a major international freight forwarder; provided and evaluation to a large moving and storage company on the feasibility of it creating an international division. Worked with Promove, the Office of Economic Development for the Montreux-Vevey Region of Switzerland, to determine the most beneficial program to promote its location for direct investment. Assisted the Overall Economic Development Corporation in New Rochelle, New York with a bilateral business development program with the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland and other activities to stimulate further development in New Rochelle such as a small business incubator and international trade center. Most recently, I decided to partner with and individual in the formation of a marketing business, which could assist those existing and emerging businesses with the practical sales and marketing assistance they will need to grow. We chose to focus on three main markets: the United States, Brazil, and Switzerland. The company has since developed associations with individuals based overseas who can exchange leads and information regarding business potential. Marketeers and Associates International is seeking to build further relationships with those companies which need assistance to establish themselves in the local markets and those firms within the tri-state which lack the necessary expertise in marketing to grow their businesses. Please consider our offering if you should come in contact with someone who can use any of the services that we offer: 1. Representation, operations support, marketing (logistics) and strategic planning; 2. Special emphasis on the import/export of products or services. Marketeers is a member of the National Association of Manufacturers and their Agents (MANA) and currently represents the American Export Register and its related advertising products in the counties of: Westchester, Fairfield, Bergen and Rockland. If you should need any additional information on my background or if, I can assist you through my network, contact me. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to give in this regard. Very truly yours, Gerard P. Santini Marketeers and Associates International 155 Lincoln Avenue Pelham, New York 10803-1329, U.S.A. Phone: (914) 738-9253 Fax: (914) 738-1684 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:38:07 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alberto_Garc=EDa_Fumero?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: I'm for the statistics I'm for the daily stats. Fumero Alberto Garc�a Fumero Sekretario pri Informado Kuba Esperanto-Asocio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:04:41 +0000 From: Technical Support Department <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Attachments - Opening Opening attachments Limitations: 1. Attachments may be up to a maximum of 2.0 MB in size or to available disk space remaining. 2. You may have up to 10 files per message as attachment. 3. If you must send an attachment larger that 2.0 MB, use a utility such as "Winsplit" to break the file up into smaller parts. An E-mail that is over 25 KB most likely contains an attachment. Usually a picture or a file. 1. To determine if your E-mail contains an attachment, examine the E-mail letter Icon in the Inbox. If the E-mail letter Icon contains a paper clip, then the E-mail contains an attachment. 2. When you open your E-mail to read, you should find the attachment in the header section of the E-mail, at the bottom of the header area. There must be a Attachment Icon with blue text next to it. The blue text is the file name or description of the attachment. Click on it to open the attachment. If you have an attachment and you cannot find the attachment in the header section, your attachment is most likely corrupted. 4. To open the attachment double click on the attachment blue text link. This will open the attachment if possible. If the attachment is a .exe or a .zip file then you may be prompted to save it to your hard disk first. 5. To save an attachment dirctly to your hard disk without opening it first, right click your mouse on the attachment then select the "save target as" menu item. The Windows95 "Save As" dialog box appears. >From this dialog box you can save the file in a location of your choice. You should be able to browse your hard disk for a location to save your file. Once you have determined the location, click the "Save" button. The file is now saved on your hard disk. You can then open the file as per file type. 6. If you have an attachment that is labled as "Unknown" without an extension the file may or may not be corrupted. To determine if you can still open the attachment try to save the attachment to disk. Then you will need to rename it with the proper extention. You may need to contact the sender for this information. If you are having a problem with opening an attachment, It is possible that the format used is not compatible with our E-mail. If you are able please forward the message to me and I will try to open it, I will extract the attachment and convert it to MIME for you so you can open it. Or give me permission to enter your account, if I am able I will send it back to you in a format that you can read. I know that some Hotmail and AOL attachments could be a problem to open. Recently, Hotmail using changed from using "UUencode" form to the MIME format, so now there is no conflict with opening Hotmail attachments. If your E-mail takes forever to open then I am convinced that the attachment was converted to text and incorporated into your E-mail. If this is the case, when you open it up, you should be getting an output that looks like this: "CR9ZBh4TEfiJ8f9ZC%ePFh0KCf8S9'mT$3S0#RX0#L!J)#!JEh"PEP0dFL! p)#FZ,LpMEfe`Eh0P,h"IBfpYF'pcC5jKFh!rBfpYE@&ZC$ecC@jNG'mQ4'9cG$d R+e4[1`d+#ACKFL"S9fjN)$dJGfPZC'ph,Qp`C@iSEh"PEP0dFL!X)N0[EA"[Ff8 L,#*hD@4dD$df0$!XD'9TCfKd263i-#abCA0THQ&LE'8pEQmXFf0bEfaXBQ" This is a corrupted attachment that was converted to text and needs to be resent. There are three main protocols that may be used to send attachments. MIME, BinHex 4.0, and "UUencode" formats. "MIME" is the internet/PC standard and should be the only one that you use. The "BinHex 4.0" format is generally used in the Mac, and the "UUencode" attachment is used primarily with Sun UNIX computers. The internet standard is 'MIME' (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) , all Internet compliant systems understand MIME. Commtouch uses the MIME format. Internet E-mail is not a perfect, homogeneous system. Attachments sent through the internet are very tricky since you are dealing with multiple operating systems and formats. Mail may become corrupted at several stages in its travel to a final destination. Specifically, E-mail sent throughout the Internet may travel across many networking technologies. Many networking and mail technologies do not support the full functionality possible in the SMTP transport environment. Mail traversing these systems is likely to be modified in such a way that it can be transported. Many times the attachment, be it a picture or a program gets converted into text because that is what the E-mailer program thinks it is. For an attachment to open correctly (most of the time) the file needs to have an extension. Like picture.gif or picture.jpg picture.bmp, excel.xls, or word.doc, etc. If your attachment file does not have an extension then the E-mail program may try to open the file in some other format usually text. Find out from the sender what the file name should be or the format of the picture file. The next thing to check is to make sure when you are sending or receiving attachments is that the file name extension is correct. If the extension is missing, then there is a high probability that the attachment could get corrupted while being sent. To correct the problem, first save the file to disk instead of opening it. Then rename the file with the following extensions, .gif, .jpg, .bmp, wks, or doc, to name a few formats. Rename the file then try to open it. if it works great, if not try a different extension. If none of them work. Ask for the E-mail to be resent and tell them to make sure that the file is named properly. Note: Pictures should be sent in .jpg or .gif because this format is a compressed picture format, .bmp format pictures are not compressed. I DO NOT recommend sending .bmp files without compressing them first. a 1.0 MB .bmp file can be compressed to a size of 100-150 KB or about 90% of its former size. Use Winzip (www.winzip.com) or some other compression program. At Commtouch we value your questions and comments and are committed to providing you with the best E-mail service possible. Regards, Technical Support Department CommTouch Software Inc. ****************************************************************** > From: "Anthony Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fwd: ACCMAIL Digest - 2 Jul 1999 to 3 Jul 1999 (#1999-185) > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:38:38 +0200 > X-Mailer: Web Based Pronto > > Hi Webmaster, > > I have received E-mails from Accmail mail list twice and can not see the > attachment at all. But in the inbox, the icon and the size of E-mail > indicate that there is an attachement adhered. But how can I get it. > Actually, I can see the attachment of others' E-mail. Can you help me? > Thanks > > Best wishes > > Anthony > > > > > > ---- Begin Included Message ---- > > From: Automatic digest processor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 00:03:35 -0400 > To: Recipients of ACCMAIL digests <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ACCMAIL Digest - 2 Jul 1999 to 3 Jul 1999 (#1999-185) > > > > ---- End Included Message ---- > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email for the Serious Investor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:15:14 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Access to free newsgroups At 11:49 PM 7/5/99 +0100, Duncan Torrie wrote the following: >I was wondering how I can access newsgroups through my current connection >(apart from deja.com and any other web based servers) . I tried >pubnews.demon.co.uk but it took forever to connect and now when it does >connect I get disconnected immediately. I hope somebody can help or maybe >give me the name of another free server. I use outlook express and am >connected through x-stream.co.uk if that's any help. See Rob's list of free NNTP servers http://www.freenntp.com/complete.htm He lists them by servers that allow posting and ones that don't -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:55:11 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mysterious reference At 05:46 AM 7/6/99 EDT, David Ames wrote the following: >Gerry Boyd refers to last weekend's fiasco at geocities, which caused him >to have doubts about his own domain. It is widely written that "If >anything can go wrong, it will." (Murphy's Law) So what went wrong? If >it happened to our moderator, couldn't it happen to anyone else? Geocities was purchased by Yahoo. Over the weekend of 26-27Jun 99, ftp access and web access to your pages at Geocities was restricted until you got a new userid and signed a lengthy agreement giving Yahoo "all rights" to your pages. Without signing the agreement you couldn't access your site to either change or remove your files. It was sign or else! So, I like many others was forced to sign. Because of this, a large protest movement started about boycotting Yahoo. Things got out of hand all across the 'net. By Wednesday, 30 Jun 99, Yahoo relented and scrapped their agreement. They are said to be making a "more reasonable agreement " that all users can live with. For any of you that may not know, Copyright law in the US is a tricky subject. By agreeing to the terms that Yahoo stated, all my work would have been the property of Yahoo to do with what they wanted. That is, copy it, put on CD-ROM, re-sell, etc. This is a big no-no in the US. The work I have done is mine, commonly termed "intellectual property rights". Nobody can take it and re-distribute as their own without approval from the Copyright holder (me). (a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine device. Works of authorship include the following categories: (1) literary works; (2) musical works, including any accompanying words; (3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music; (4) pantomimes and choreographic works; (5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; (6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works; (7) sound recordings; and (8) architectural works. (b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. There is also another doctrine called "fair use", that is where you make reference to copyrighted works or use a subset of them in a magazine, TV, newspaper review, or in an educational setting. Even under "fair use" you cannot take the "whole thing" and include it as your work. This is usually the reason for a bibliography and footnotes in university research papers. You make reference to where you got the information but don't claim it to be your own. Same thing applies to web pages (which is another form of publishing -- literary works -- and falls under the copyright law). Fair Use - The fair use provision of the Copyright Act limits the copyright order to promote free speech and learning. 1.It allows for reproduction of copyrighted material for the purposes comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, etc.. 2.The use must meet the criteria set forth in the Fair Use Test. Fair Use Test There are four factors used in determining whether fair use is applicable in a given situation. These factors are: 1.The purpose and character of the USE is the use of a commercial nature, or of an educational/nonprofit nature? 2.The nature of the COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL is the copyrighted material of a commercial nature, or of an educational/nonprofit nature? 3.The substantiality of the USE versus the size of the COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL as a whole this provision is what allows the duplication of a chapter of a book (for appropriate purposes) but NOT the duplication of the entire book. 4.The effect of the USE on the potential market of the COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL is the use limiting the copyrighted material's author's ability to make money off of the work, or devaluing the work itself? For more details: US Copyright Law http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ Berne Convention on Copyright (for the rest of the world) gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/Copyright See the Usenet FAQ concerning Copyright at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet-faqs/html/law/copyrig ht/myths/part1/faq.html Hence, the reason for my standard copyright notice in all my work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c) 1996-99, Gerald E. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] All rights reserved. Permission is granted to duplicate and distribute copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phew!!! I think that's enough... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:09:38 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What is MAPI worm? At 11:05 AM 7/6/99 +0430, Babak Memari wrote the following: >What is MAPI worm? >From DataFellows virus information database This is a worm which attempts to use Microsoft Word 97 to send e-mail to everyone at the address book of the current user. However, it will not infect any Word documents and will work only if the installed email client supports MAPI (Mail API, supported by most modern Windows e-mail programs). The Melissa virus/worm was the largest example of this. >From RFC1135 A "worm" is a program that can run independently, will consume the resources of its host from within in order to maintain itself, and can propagate a complete working version of itself on to other machines. A "virus" is a piece of code that inserts itself into a host, including operating systems, to propagate. It cannot run independently. It requires that its host program be run to activate it. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:12:53 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Subject: Introduction At 07:47 AM 7/6/99 -0400, Cargo/ GMS wrote the following: >I am sending you the following brief summary of my background and activities >including the formation of Marketeers and Associates International. Accmailers, Ooops. Sorry about this. I was approving and writing at the same time and allowed this one through. Drats, and I was doing so well I thought. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:07:30 +0530 From: "Bera, Kousik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Protecting files ----- Original Message ----- From: Jerel D. Arbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 4:14 AM Subject: Re: Protecting files > }Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:43:36 -0400 > }From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ismael_Mart=EDnez_C=E1rdenas?= > } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > } > }How can I protect a folder in my computer so that another else cannot > open it. > }Ismael > } > }------------------------------ > > Generally, you can't! > You can if you have NTFS (NT File System). NTFS is a type of file system available with Windose NT. You can convert your existing FAT filesystem to NTFS by CONVERT command (but note that you can't revert back to FAT !). Apart from that if you use UNIX or Linux the feature comes with the OS itself. Kousik ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:08:28 +0200 From: Jan Wagemakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help Hello, On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Osama B. Bahwal wrote: > 2- Information about assembly language. A very interesting site about assembly is 'http://asmjournal.freeservers.com/'. It has information about assembly-programming for a lot of different operating systems. The only problem is that I have not find a way to download files from this website by using only E-mail. So, if someone can download files from this website by making use of an E-mail-only-method I like to hear it. (nah, On-Topic ;-) If you like Assembly and Linux you can take a look a my home-page ;-) Regards - Jan Wagemakers - Internet : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bewoner.dma.be/JanW (Linux & Assembler) Fidonet : 2:292/854.19 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:35:50 +0400 From: "Nikita A. Pavlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Rusiian in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] understand rusiian words? WBR, Nikita A. Pavlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eaglegroup.da.ru http://1001.vdv.ru(/arc/199.htm) -------------------------------- Sent by Z-Mail - http://zmail.ru ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:19:31 -0500 From: "Lic. Noelio Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: About list membership... Mr. Gerald; I recently joined the list and I have learned a lot. I will be quite unhappy if it were ever shutdown. I believe e-mail access is useful beyond having full online access. Keep the good work!!! ps: thanks for bringing back the statistics!! bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:41:32 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: News and www mirror At 02:16 PM 7/5/99 -0700, Andrei Boros wrote the following: > Are there gateways on the itnernet through which one can subscribe to a >mailing list like service and get the messages from a news group? Not any more. Since the reference.com service is not working the only other method I know of is MyDeja. However, you need web access to fill-in the form. Email methods won't work because you need a "cookie" for the subscription. However, once subscribed, the news is sent to your mailbox. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:13:32 -0400 From: mike fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: thank you gerry > When I took over the list in Oct 1997 we had over 3,000 for doing that -- you have enriched the lives of all of us and i for one will be forever thankful mike in havana ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:25:16 -0400 From: Sorin Calinescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Net stats Just for the record: My vote is *NEY* >From euROpe, my best regards to you all Accmailers, Sorin Calinescu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:16:23 -0400 From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FCC ID translator Any place where you can enter with some fcc ID number and can obtain the details of the product? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:51:18 +0400 From: konev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <No subject given> Hi guys. I'm Alex Konev, and I'm a newbie here. Would anyone give me a piece of advice as to what to read first to understand how the ACCMAIL works? I've got the archive list and the list of ACCMAIL commands, but I need a simple help file to understand how to find and subscribe to www-email, etc. TIA, Alex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:38:34 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: search engines At 08:06 PM 7/5/99 GMT, Adalbert Goertz wrote the following: >In [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was able to use search engines yahoo, altavista by the >search command >search yahoo keyword >I tried the same with [EMAIL PROTECTED] >and [EMAIL PROTECTED] >which didnt work. You can try [EMAIL PROTECTED] This site is partially resurrected. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:19:26 +0200 From: Frits Westra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: KFS Search (was: search engines) Hello Adalbert, Why not try [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? It has a nice search function now, using two or sometimes three search engines (Yahoo, Altavista, Excite). And it's usually fast. Send the following message: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJ: {leave blank} BODY: search <your search words> Replace <your search words> by words of your own choice, without the brackets of course. Regards, Frits > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:06:49 GMT > From: Adalbert Goertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: search engines > > In [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was able to use search engines yahoo, altavista by the > search command > search yahoo keyword > I tried the same with [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > which didnt work. > Any ideas? Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:27:15 -0400 From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: keyboard layout I need a place where I can find the layouts of the different keyboards corresponding to different languages. eg. In contol panel, refering to keyboards you can read keyboard layout Spanish(Spain) Spanish(international) etc. I need identifying some keyboards in order to whta you relly see on screen matches with what you type. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:10:29 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FCC ID translator At 01:16 PM 7/6/99 -0400, Roberto Safora wrote the following: >Any place where you can enter with some fcc ID number and can obtain the >details of the product? FCC ID Search http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/alternate.html http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/alternate2.html http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/alternate3.html Works fine albeit a little slow. I have a Zoom external modem with an FCC id of BDNUSA-24481-MM-E Looking up the 3 character Grantee Code BDN yields 43 modems by Zoom. The web page uses a POST method so you should probably retrieve it with a www4mail server. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:17:15 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Requests to Yahoo! people search by the e-mail At 01:51 PM 7/6/99 +0300, Dimitry Korolkov wrote the following: >is there any possibility to send the requests - in order to find e-mail >adress - to service "Yahoo! People Search" by the e-mail (similary to the >questions to the search engines)? > >And setting of advanced-search options (country, company and so on) - is >that possible to do for the e-mail only user? Another site that uses a POST method. I tried a query string approach and it failed. You might try a www4mail server and retrieve the web page http://people.yahoo.com/ -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:25:21 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Large posting) At 05:08 PM 7/6/99 +0400, coffin wrote the following: > Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] work ??? > May there are some Like services at Internet ??? > > I test [EMAIL PROTECTED] but get Nothing ... Neither did I. However, according to the reliable remailer list as of today nym is active. So maybe just the help file requests are slow... Here is the help file as of 27 May 1999: Date: 27 May 1999 17:36:05 -0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: nym.alias.net From: Help Message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Instructions for using nym.alias.net X-Sorted: Default INSTRUCTIONS FOR NYM.ALIAS.NET $Revision: 1.76 $ TRANSLATIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT Unter http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/anon/n.a.n.help.html findet sich dieser Text in deutscher Sprache. Zagladajac do http://www.hyperreal.art.pl/cypher/remailer/nym.html>hyperreal a znajdziecie polskojezyczne opracowania dotyczace pseudonimow. ADDITIONAL HELP If you need help for problems which probably aren't bugs in the server software, please direct your questions to the newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server or to the maintainer of the client software you are using (if appropriate). NOTICE For the very latest version of this file, finger or send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. An HTML version of this file is available by fingering or sending mail to <help- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The version of this file on the nym.alias.net web page is sometimes a few days older than the version available directly from nym.alias.net. PGP 5.0 Nym.alias.net does not support PGP 5. It is recommended that you use PGP 2.6.2 (or a more recent version of PGP 2) with nym.alias.net, though PGP 5.0 might work in compatibility mode. Nym.alias.net will not support PGP 5 until a stable, free, legal (in the US) version is available in source form. INTRODUCTION The nym.alias.net server allows you to send and receive E-mail pseudonymously through a username of your choice on nym.alias.net. If, for instance, you choose username <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you will be able to send and receive E-mail at that address, and even get fingered at that address. The system is designed to prevent anyone, even the administrators of nym.alias.net, from finding out the real person behind any mail alias. If you use this service properly, an adversary will have to compromise multiple remailers operated by different people in order to find out your real identity. For each mail alias or "nym" (short for pseudonym) on nym.alias.net, the server has on file a PGP public key, a reply block, and a few configuration parameters. The PGP public key is used to authenticate both configuration requests for your nym and outgoing messages you wish to send from your nym.alias.net address. Such messages should be sent to nym.alias.net anonymously, to avoid any connection between your real E- mail address and your pseudonym. The PGP key can also be used to encrypt any mail received for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> before that mail is forwarded to you through the remailer network. The reply block contains instructions for sending mail to your real E- mail address (or to a newsgroup such as alt.anonymous.messages if you want your mail delivered there). These instructions are successively encrypted for a series of so-called Type-1 remailers in such a way that each remailer can only see the identity of the next hop. To send you an E-mail message (after optionally encrypting it with your nym's PGP key), the server will prepend your reply-block to that message and feed the result directly to the Type-1 remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [Note that this remailer is reserved for use by nym.alias.net aliases and people debugging their reply-blocks, so you shouldn't see it listed in any of the standard remailer lists.] Thus, mail you send to nym.alias.net arrives anonymously through the remailer network. Mail you receive from nym.alias.net leaves the server with an encrypted reply block, and can be sent either directly to you or to a message pool such as the newsgroup alt.anonymous.messages. When used properly, therefore, nym.alias.net provides the convenience of an ordinary E-mail address with a strong assurance that your true identity will remain a secret. CLIENT SOFTWARE This document describes the gory details of the E-mail message interface to nym.alias.net. While it is possible to create and decode all your nym messages manually, it is far easier to use client software which automates the process. The primary design goal of nym.alias.net was to provide the highest degree of privacy possible. This required a great deal of complexity in the message formats, complexity far better handled by client software than humans. If you use a unix system, there is a program called premail which creates and manages nym.alias.net pseudonyms for you. For more information on premail, see ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/remailer/premail. The nym.alias.net support in premail was contributed by the author of nym.alias.net, so if you report nym.alias.net-specific problems in premail you can CC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you use a DOS/Windows system, you can use a program called Potato to create nyms, decrypt incoming mail and send outgoing mail from your nym. See http://www.bigfoot.com/~potatoware for more information or to download Potato. Another DOS/Windows program for managing nyms is called EasyNym, and is available from http://home.clara.net/j.davies/easynym/. Still another, DOS/Windows program for managing nyms is called Private Idaho. See http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/pi.html for more information on Private Idaho. A newer version of Private Idaho (recommended) is available from http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/pidaho/. Please do not contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for help with Private Idaho or Potato, as the administrators of nym.alias.net do not use either software package or have access to the hardware and operating systems necessary to try them. If you have problems with these software packages, try asking for help in the newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server. In addition, there are some unofficial nym.alias.net/PI instructions at http://www.dnai.com/~wussery/pgp.html may be of use, too. SETTING UP A MAIL ALIAS To create a new alias on nym.alias.net, you will need to generate a PGP key for that alias, create a reply block for receiving mail sent to that alias, and finally send both of these to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in a configuration message. This process is somewhat complicated, and can easily go wrong. For this reason it is recommended that you use one of the programs described in the section on "CLIENT SOFTWARE" if you can. If you do create an alias manually and you run into problems while setting things up, skip to the section on "PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS" at the end to see if you are making a common mistake. An alternate, unofficial, and perhaps less technically daunting description of setting up a pseudonym can be found at http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/nym.html. GENERATING A PGP KEY FOR YOUR NYM To generate a new PGP public/private key pair for use with your nym, run the command `pgp -kg'. PGP will ask you to enter a user ID for your public key. What you choose for a user ID depends on how you intend to use your nym's PGP public key. There are two approaches you can take: 1. Publish your nym's key. If you want to sign messages directly with your nym's PGP key and have others encrypt mail with that key, you should choose a PGP user ID that contains your nym.alias.net E-mail address in angle brackets. For instance, an ID like this: A Test User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you do this, you will be able to submit your key to the PGP key servers and even make it available via finger at nym.alias.net (see the +fingerkey Nym-command below). Be aware, however, that publishing your nym's PGP key may put your privacy at risk. PGP does not protect the identities or fingerprints of keys on your private key ring; only the keys themselves are protected by a passphrase. If your nym's PGP key is publicly available, anyone with access to your secring.pgp file (or a backup of it) will be able to figure out if that public key belongs to you. Thus, you should only publish your nym's PGP key if your secring.pgp file is secure, or if you have software such as premail (finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that will encrypt entire PGP keyrings for a pseudonym account. 2. Keep the public key secret. Alternatively, you can prevent your PGP key from being traceable to your nym account. For this approach, you should pick a user ID that is not very descriptive and gives no indication of either your real E-mail address or your nym address. Though PGP will not allow a null user ID, you can choose a user ID which is only a space, or something seemingly unimportant like `test key'. Do not sign your PGP key if you want to keep it secret. Do not submit it to any key servers, give it out to people, or use it to sign messages that aren't also sent to and encrypted for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Note that even if you don't publish your nym's PGP key, you can have the nym.alias.net server sign your outgoing mail with its own PGP key. This can be used to guard against simple mail forgeries. Obviously, however, it is preferable to use your own PGP key if you can do so safely. Whichever approach you choose, make sure you never use your nym public key for any non-nym related purposes. Your nym secret key should probably have a different passphrase from your regular PGP key to help prevent you from using it in the wrong context. You may also wish to put a line like: MYNAME = <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the file $HOME/.pgp/config.txt (which you can create if it does not already exist). This explicitly tells PGP to use your regular PGP key rather than your nym key by default. Once you have a PGP key for your pseudonym, you can extract it to a file, for instance by executing these commands from your shell: pgp -fkxa "nym key ID" > tmpfile On Unix systems, you may wish to make sure tmpfile cannot be read by any other users. For this you can run the command `umask 077' first. Here and in the rest of this document, "nym key ID" is the user ID you chose for the PGP key you generated, or some unique substring of that key. If you chose option one above (publishing your nym key), then you can just use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the nym key ID. Otherwise, you will need to use whatever user ID you did choose. Note that if the user ID you type contains any spaces, you will need to surround the whole thing with double quotes, as shown above. (You can surround it with double quotes anyway--it won't hurt anything.) CREATING A REPLY BLOCK Another explanation of how to create reply blocks is available on the help page of the now defunct alpha.c2.org remailer: http://www.well.com/user/abacard/alpha.html. Note that alpha.c2.org did not run the same software as nym.alias.net, so only the description of reply blocks will be relevant on this web page, not any other description of how the service worked. To create a reply block, first choose some passphrases for shared-key, conventional encryption with "pgp -c". Suppose you want your message encrypted first with your nym's public key, then with shared key "passphrase_b", then with shared key "passphrase_a". Create a remailer message like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_a ** Here "Latent-Time: +0:00" will prevent any delay. You can and should use something longer or omit the Latent-Time header if you want more security. Note that if for passphrase_a you choose a passphrase with a space character in it, some remailers may require you to surround the passphrase with quotes (though other remailers may not understand the quotes). You will need to encrypt the above message with a remailer's PGP public key. Note that the remailers used in this example do not exist any more. They are here only as examples. You can get an up to date list of remailers and their public keys from http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html, or by fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] On this list, only remailers that have all three of the "cpunk", "pgp", and "ek" properties should be used for reply blocks. In addition, make sure the remailers you chose are listed in the statistics section lower down on the page (some of the remailers listed in the top section are no longer functional). You can add the PGP keys of all the remailers to your PGP public key ring by running: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp -fka Once you have selected a remailer, for example <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and have added that remailer's key to your PGP public keyring, encrypt the above message with that remailer's key. If the above were stored in a file rblock1, for instance, you would encrypt the message with the command: pgp -eat rblock1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To yield a file called rblock1.asc with cyphertext like this: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- Prepend to this the following header: :: Encrypted: PGP Finally add another set of remailer commands to send the above cyphertext to the remailer for which you just encrypted-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in this example. The result should look like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_b :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ** Note two things about this message. First, there must be a blank line before the second `::'. Second, you must add `**' to the end of your message. `Encrypt-Key:' will cause everything below the `**' to be encrypted. If you don't include it, remailers will either fail to encrypt your mail or even discard it. For greater security, you should now repeat this process some number of times so that mail to your pseudonym travels through multiple remailers. Pick another remailer from the list. Encrypt the entire above message from and including the first `::' up to and including the `**', and add a new set of headers for sending to the second remailer you have just picked. The result will look just like the above message, only with a larger PGP portion and different `Anon-To:' and `Encrypt-Key:' headers. For instance, if you chose the remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, your reply block might now look like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_c :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 dHNr1NA6WWaIfV0pR+sluNWFxNYuTk0OFgtg8c0ABRG0Kzxjb25maWdAbnltLmFs aWFzLm5ldD4vPHNlbmRAbnltLmFsaWFzLm5ldD6JAJUDBRAxumL3RMG0dWLnx9EB AaRTA/4xIgNrem7Yay0/rFfXgoGHUhWsZVhAlQP1fVEIRYuYEC4Biodwx3nYL31r 9IcgBkm/DUddkfCUfroMr7wbm6GnYnrVLc4dZ9ACCjUVX7n5hvanc8/Efx0yE03l D+r9n5liz5X4vk65f+DIw1LykM9zTg/4GNwAENn6H5YTtg6Q+IkBFQMFEDG6YVlO hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ** The last remailer you encrypt for will be the first remailer your mail goes through. The last `Encrypt-Key:' header will therefore be the first key with which your message is encrypted, and the last with which you will need to decrypt received mail. With this example reply block, you would need decrypt received mail first with "passphrase_a", then "passphrase_b", then "passphrase_c", and finally with your nym's private key. SENDING IN A NYM-CREATION REQUEST Once you have a PGP key and reply block for your nym, you must send a configuration request to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to create the nym. A creation request contains four things: The pseudonym you wish to use, a "create" command, your nym's public key, and the reply block for your nym. The reply-block must always come last in your mail message. Suppose you wanted to choose the alias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you wanted outgoing mail from your nym to have From: lines like this: From: A Test User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And you wanted people who fingered your nym to see: Mail Alias: yournym Name: A Test User PGP Public-Key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzGf6A8AAAEEAPknqWEUA8U4+l5TFkD5Fj0COten6bbIe5bBb/1MvI+w6mFl z06CPb2K/Z1fzjT48ZyxwYR+S3jU3Z96JEFRl99HYh3lTIUiBHW/XtwyefF0y61x qYkNuUpSFh9BDBFM7N3uVvaNbzLiFnqCpZLm5ZIfrLcla3qUgkTBtHVi58fRAAUR tDhsY3MgbWl4bWFzdGVyIGFkbWluaXN0cmF0b3IgPG1peC1hZG1pbkBhbm9uLmxj cy5taXQuZWRxPokAlQMFEDGf6ClEwbR1YufH0QEBX60D/jZ5MFRFIFA1VxTPD5Zj Xw2bvqJqFvlwLD5SSHCVfe/ka6ALuxZGFKD/pHpUAkfv1hWqAYsJpi0cf8HSdi23 bh5dUeLJnHHHDmd9d55MuNYI6WTi+2YoaiJOZT3C70oOuzVXuELZ+nZwV20yxe8y 4M3b0Xjt9kq2upbCNuHZmQP+ =jIEc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- You could a create message like this: Config: From: yournym Nym-Commands: create +acksend +fingerkey name="A Test User" Public-Key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzGf6A8AAAEEAPknqWEUA8U4+l5TFkD5Fj0COten6bbIe5bBb/1MvI+w6mFl z06CPb2K/Z1fzjT48ZyxwYR+S3jU3Z96JEFRl99HYh3lTIUiBHW/XtwyefF0y61x qYkNuUpSFh9BDBFM7N3uVvaNbzLiFnqCpZLm5ZIfrLcla3qUgkTBtHVi58fRAAUR tDhsY3MgbWl4bWFzdGVyIGFkbWluaXN0cmF0b3IgPG1peC1hZG1pbkBhbm9uLmxj cy5taXQuZWRxPokAlQMFEDGf6ClEwbR1YufH0QEBX60D/jZ5MFRFIFA1VxTPD5Zj Xw2bvqJqFvlwLD5SSHCVfe/ka6ALuxZGFKD/pHpUAkfv1hWqAYsJpi0cf8HSdi23 bh5dUeLJnHHHDmd9d55MuNYI6WTi+2YoaiJOZT3C70oOuzVXuELZ+nZwV20yxe8y 4M3b0Xjt9kq2upbCNuHZmQP+ =jIEc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_b :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ** Note that the first line of this message was `Config:'. Any message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be silently discarded if the first line is not `Config:'! Note that the `From:' line just contains the name "yournym", and nothing else. Do not put angle brackets or anything else on your From line. (Though as a special case, `From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' will work as long as it is not surrounded by angle brackets.) Note also that your PGP key will not be visible via finger unless the key user ID contains your nym E-mail address in angle-brackets. You can also prevent your public key from being available via finger by omitting the `+fingerkey' from the `Nym-Commands:' line. The above message must then be encrypted with the nym.alias.net public key, and signed by your nym's new private key. The nym.alias.net public key is listed here, and is also available by fingering or sending mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can run finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp -fka to add this key to your public keyring. You might then run `pgp -kvc nym.alias.net' and verify that your copy of the public key has fingerprint `B6 41 A7 85 4E A8 C7 6D DD 02 18 4E 4A A9 84 E3'. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzGzy5AAAAEH/2JjaB4AuQff90Mejru+FVptG4/wPmwK7WteavNXJpYxWoRm SzxwNz70q4QCLKBR0QnzXqGeGtCB5IE4dIuPIkMiPvRv57rBaDe4qkzNkgwuZiH9 qGMsOSidCf+xaIJyL7RtljKuDSU8KH2OGIdwEpGa20U+9oXabWCpWwVvfJhgxPFF xhiFLeMzhEUgsVXxIn2ThD8AyHyTUXWd11nvvTeKt+y9qX+7fUDrn6HIl1lFmxQA RAOc83jjDNgWbanHWG9+1g8KFLkBrEdxJtNQeb/JMSZ122Dxda5CwtMnQGI0mCcr dHNr1NA6WWaIfV0pR+sluNWFxNYuTk0OFgtg8c0ABRG0Kzxjb25maWdAbnltLmFs aWFzLm5ldD4vPHNlbmRAbnltLmFsaWFzLm5ldD6JAJUDBRAxumL3RMG0dWLnx9EB AaRTA/4xIgNrem7Yay0/rFfXgoGHUhWsZVhAlQP1fVEIRYuYEC4Biodwx3nYL31r 9IcgBkm/DUddkfCUfroMr7wbm6GnYnrVLc4dZ9ACCjUVX7n5hvanc8/Efx0yE03l D+r9n5liz5X4vk65f+DIw1LykM9zTg/4GNwAENn6H5YTtg6Q+IkBFQMFEDG6YVlO TQ4WC2DxzQEBIvMH/jER9tiQcJG2NvkiOqcIeBSPLb15EPFMg1He3clRIz398ToH iv4oNKZEjVox3O0zowcUW0zfgtzhlMbudOwgoylCpCxVukuF1tsleoGlvDES0iA8 WdnYftt/rr3awf0j2pmLFbCmEDFaebuYgRXGe5yavaSjFDPzjFZqKwTYs5VnKOjP XjI0yrem4PXw6K5sOANJKaa6yFrHJ/58iqbV8Rl7p0qNwwIi1nDn5UgpDOFDqWMq sO9HUjRD2Y+Kmq6qlSg1gKV1hehZuAxHKtJAIZf+MPaI/sRbs79oN5GVwpmqoiZF vz6bLS+qs69kVwg2RQoY2BSAzyUeT+rw70YfLAc= =ekCY -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- When you have the nym.alias.net public key, you can encrypt and sign your configuration request with the command: pgp -seat file [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u "nym key ID". Once you have produced a PGP encrypted and signed message, mail it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> through some anonymous remailers. If the name you chose is available, this will create your mail alias. You can send mail to or finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to get a list of pseudonyms already in use. If your request is successful, you will get mail through your reply block acknowledging successful completion. In this acknowledgment, you may also be asked to confirm your reply block by sending mail to a particular confirmation address. This two step process in necessary at times to cut back on the number of nyms with bad reply blocks which are left for dead. A new account will be deleted if the reply block has not been confirmed in one week. Note that if you receive an acknowledgment which does not ask for confirmation, your mail alias will already be functional. SENDING MAIL FROM YOUR PSEUDONYM Once you have created a mail alias, you will automatically receive mail sent to that alias at nym.alias.net (encrypted first with the public key you mailed it, then with any Encrypt-Keys you specified in your reply block). To send mail from that alias, simply create a mail message, encrypt it with the nym.alias.net public key, sign it with your nym key, and mail it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thus, for example, create a file with (substituting the name you chose for "yournym"): From: yournym To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.test Subject: ignore this nym test just a test Note once againt that the `From:' line just contains the name "yournym", and nothing else. The contents of the From line in outgoing mail will be set by the pseudonym server, based on your account name and what you set with the `name=' `Nym-Command'. Do not put angle brackets around yournym or include anything else on the From line. (Though as a special case, `From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' is also acceptable, as long as it is not surrounded by angle brackets.) If this file is called testpost, encrypt and sign the file by running: pgp -seat testpost [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u "nym key ID" This will create a file called testkey.asc, which you can then mail (through other remailers) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to post the above test message to the newsgroup alt.test. If you used the `+signsend' Nym-Command when creating your nym, any mail you send through <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will be PGP signed and dated by the nym.alias.net private key to certify its authenticity. If you do not wish your mail to be signed, or if you have published your alias's public key and wish to sign messages yourself with that key, you can disable this default signing by sending a -signsend configuration command as described below. Regardless of your nym's configuration settings, you can also enable or disable both signing and acknowledgment of outgoing mail on a per- message basis. Do so by including in your encrypted and signed E-mail message a `Nym-Commands:' header with one or two of the +signsend, - signsend, +acksend, or -acksend keywords. Ordinarily the recipients of mail you send will be determined by the `To:', `Cc:', and `Bcc:' headers of the message, which have the usual behavior. However, occasionally you may wish to specify a list of recipients explicitly. This may be useful, for instance, if you wanted to PGP-encrypt a message for some recipients but not others. In such a case, you would need to mail two copies of the message, one encrypted and one not. However, you might still want the `To:' and `Cc:' headers to reflect the full list of recipients. You can explicitly specify the full list of recipients by listing them in a `Hidden-To:' header of your E-mail message. If a `Hidden-To:' header is present in mail you send, that header will be removed and mail will be sent to the users it lists regardless of any other headers in the mail message. A NOTE ON POSTING FOLLOWUP MESSAGES TO USENET In order to post a followup article to Usenet and have it appear in a thread, you must set the `Subject:' and `References:' headers of your message correctly. The subject of your message should be the same as the article to which you are replying, unless you are replying to the first message in a thread, in which case you should prepend "Re: " to the original subject. To build a references header, copy the references header of the article to which you are replying, and append that article's Message-ID. If you are replying to the first article of a thread, it won't have a references header. In that case just use the article's Message-ID as your references header. Be sure to leave a space between Message-IDs in your references header. For example, if replying to a message which includes these headers: Subject: Re: anonymous remailers References: <5dfqlm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <5dko56$1lv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> your reply should contain these headers: Subject: Re: anonymous remailers References: <5dfqlm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <5dko56$1lv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Note that an indented line in a message header indicates a continuation of the previous line.] If replying to the first message in a thread, with these headers: Subject: Help with P.G.P Message-ID: <5e96gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> your reply should contain these headers: Subject: Re: Help with P.G.P References: <5e96gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The references header can be trimmed to include only IDs from messages that you have quoted from or are replying to. CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR MAIL ALIAS To change either your public key, your reply block, or the parameters of your alias, you can simply send another message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> similar to the one you used to create your nym. However, when modifying an existing nym, you can omit any fields you don't want to change. Thus, you can send a message which contains "Nym- Commands" but no Public-Key or Reply-Block, or one which contains only a new Reply-Block. Of course, do not include "Nym-Commands: create" in a configuration message for an existing nym as your modification request will then fail. Once again, the first line of the configuration message you send must be `Config:', and the message will need to be both signed and encrypted with pgp -seat message [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u "nym key ID" as described above for sending mail. As an example, the following message, mailed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, would set the reply block for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Config: From: yournym Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_b :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ** After changing your reply block, you will receive an acknowledgment through the new reply block. This confirmation may ask you to confirm your reply block, in which case you must reply to the acknowledgment message before your new reply block is put in place. To delete your alias entirely, send encrypted and signed mail with simply the lines: Config: From: yournym Nym-Commands: delete (substituting your real alias name for yournym). After deleting your alias, you should receive PGP-signed mail explicitly acknowledging the deletion of that alias. An acknowledgment simply confirming generic successful completion of your request does not indicate that your alias has been deleted. You can also verify deletion of your nym by retrieving a list of all nyms through <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can give several commands using the "Nym-Commands:" header in a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can place several of these commands in a single Nym-Commands header, separated by spaces, or you can can put multiple "Nym-Commands:" headers in the same message. Valid commands are: +acksend/-acksend Enable/disable an automatic acknowledgment each time a message is successfully remailed for your alias through <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This configuration option can be overridden on a per-message basis by a `Nym-Commands:' header in an outgoing mail message. +signsend/-signsend Enable/disable automatic PGP signing of any outgoing mail you send through the remailer. If you disable this, anyone can forge mail from your nym very easily (particularly since the sendmail program running on nym.alias.net does not add Received: headers to all mail). If you have decided to publish the public key of your nym, however, you will want to sign all outgoing messages with your nym's public key (that is sign them a second time inside the message-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will always reject a message unless it can strip off a valid signature around the whole thing). Having a nym.alias.net signature around another signature can prevent mail readers from verifying the inside signature, so you should choose the -signsend option if you want to sign all messages yourself. (See the section on "GENERATING A PGP KEY FOR YOUR NYM" for a note on the dangers of publishing your nym's PGP key.) This configuration option can be overridden on a per-message basis by a `Nym-Commands:' header in an outgoing mail message. +cryptrecv/-cryptrecv Enable/disable automatic encryption with your nym's public key of messages received for your alias. Disabling public-key encryption will reduce your privacy. However, it may also allow you to decode received mail with client software designed for the older alpha.c2.org-style pseudonym servers. Note that even when +cryptrecv is enabled, you still should use shared-key encryption between remailer hops to prevent your mail from being traced. See the section on "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS" below for more details. +fixedsize/-fixedsize When you send the +fixedsize Nym-Command, all messages you receive will be split and/or padded to exactly the same size (roughly 10K). This padding will take place outside the public key encryption, and so will only be useful if you also use shared-key encryption. If you do used shared-key encryption, however, (and you really should), having all your messages be the same size will make it significantly harder for anyone to do traffic analysis on mail to your nym. +disable/-disable One of the most effective forms of attack on a pseudonymous remailer such as this is to flood the system with messages for a particular destination. Moreover, because this alias software does not know a message's final destination, it is possible that some joker could point an alias at itself (maybe even using two reply-blocks to create exponentially increasing levels of traffic). To protect against this, if you send or receive more than about 10 Megabytes of mail in one day, your alias will be disabled and further mail to you it will bounce. You will receive mail notifying you of the situation if this happens to you. At this point, you can re-enable your alias by sending a message with `Nym-Commands: -disable' to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. +fingerkey/-fingerkey Allow people to obtain your nym's PGP public key by fingering your E-mail address. The Key ID on your PGP public key must contain your nym's full E-mail address in angle brackets in order to be given out through finger. Thus, a Key ID of "Test User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" would be visible by fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED], but a key ID of just "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would not be. See the section on "GENERATING A PGP KEY FOR YOUR NYM" below for a discussion of the security implications of publishing your nym's public key. name="Your Alias Name" Typically E-mail `From:' lines contain a user's full name in addition to his/her E-mail address or account name. To set up a name to be printed in all your outgoing messages, like this: From: Your Alias Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and to have that full name appear when your nym is fingered, you should send the corresponding `name=' Nym-Command in a configuration message. Note that the outer quotes are necessary even if your name does not contain any white space. If your full name name actually contains any quote or backslash characters, you must precede them with a backslash, as in, for instance: Nym-Commands: name="Billy \"the kid\" Smith" To delete your full name so that outgoing mail only shows your alias address and finger shows a full name of '???', send the command name="". create/create? One of these two commands must be given when creating a new alias. The create command will fail if a nym with the chosen name already exists. The create? command will create a new nym, but can also update an existing nym if the configuration message is signed by the nym's previous private key. delete This command deletes your alias and wipes your reply block. As described above, you should receive PGP-signed mail explicitly acknowledging the deletion of your alias. An acknowledgment simply confirming generic "successful execution" of your request does not indicate that your alias has been deleted. Note the message will not be PGP-encrypted if you have selected -cryptrecv, but in that case encryption with the proper shared keys should provide some assurance of authenticity. +nobcc/-nobcc When set to +nobcc, your nym will not receive any blind carbon copies of mail messages. When you have selected +nobcc, any E-mail sent to your pseudonym will bounce if it does not display your E- mail address in a To, Cc, Resent-To, or Resent-Cc header. Aparently- To headers are ignored for the purpose of the nobcc option--mail will bounce even if you are listed in an Apparently-To header. While blind carbon copies can be a legitimate and useful mechanism, most so-called SPAM messages are sent as blind carbon copies. Thus, +nobcc may reduce the number of SPAM messages you receive at the possible expense bouncing some legitimate blind carbon copies. - nobcc undoes the effect of a previous +nobcc command, and allows the reception of blind carbon copies again. Note: You will not be able to subscibe to any mailing lists if you select +nobcc. Default values for the Nym-Commands are: -acksend -signsend +cryptrecv -fixedsize -disable -fingerkey name="" -nobcc REPLAY The remailer keeps a replay cache, and will not accept the same message twice unless each copy has been separately signed. Thus, it is safe to send multiple copies of outgoing E-mail messages through very long remailer chains if you are worried about one copy not getting through. Whether one or more copies actually make it through, only one copy will go out. One side effect of this is, however, that if you PGP sign a test message and mail it in multiple times, it will only work the first time. Note that signatures are only considered valid for a week. Thus, if mail comes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] more than a week after you signed it, that mail will be dropped. MULTIPLE REPLY BLOCKS Sometimes anonymous remailers can be unreliable, and you would like to receive two copies of all your messages through two independent remailer chains. Alternatively, perhaps you want to send one copy of each E-mail message you receive to the bit bucket through a long series of anonymous remailers. You can assign multiple reply blocks to your nym by prefixing each with "Reply-Block:" at the end of a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. For example, the following message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Config: From: yournym Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: key1 ** Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +1:00r Encrypt-Key: key2 ** Will setup your alias to send one copy of each message you receive to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately, and to send a second copy to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> after up to one hour of random delay. Of course, in order for this to be useful, you should use more complex reply-blocks which chain through multiple remailers. It may also make traffic analysis more difficult if you don't always use the same remailer path. You can assign a probability to a reply block by adding "x=probability" to the `Reply-Block:' line (where 'x' can be any single letter variable name). For example, consider the following reply- block: Reply-Block: p=0.75 :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: key1 ** Reply-Block: q=0.5 :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +1:00r Encrypt-Key: key2 ** Reply-Block: q=0.5 :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +1:00r Encrypt-Key: key3 ** 3/4 of the time, a copy of a message you receive will immediately be mailed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. After some random delay (up to an hour), your message will be mailed either to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Multiple reply-blocks with the same probability variable are mutually exclusive. Thus since the q blocks are "q=0.5" and "q=0.5", and since 0.5 + 0.5 = 1.0, you are guaranteed to get a copy of all your mail. Generally speaking, you will probably want all the weights associated with a particular variable to add up to 1.0 unless the reply-block is just for cover traffic. Bizarre behavior may occur if your probabilities add up to more than one--use different probability letters if you want to receive multiple copies of mail. While the idea of using many different reply-blocks with small probabilities may seem appealing for defeating traffic analysis, keep in mind that each reply block is traceable back to you. Suppose you have 10 reply blocks for your nym, each with probability 0.1. If those reply blocks become compromised, only one of the 10 will have to be uncovered to find out your real identity. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS If you care about the secrecy of your identity, then the only truly secure way of of protecting it is by pointing all your reply blocks to usenet newsgroups and using a news server that does not log. See the section on the section on "REPLY BLOCKS POINTING TO NEWSGROUPS" for instructions on doing this. KEYRINGS AND PUBLIC KEYS The most important thing to realize about the privacy of your messages is that anyone can determine your nym's PGP public key ID from looking at an encrypted message, and anyone get the key IDs of your private keys from your private key ring without needing a passphrase. That means if you don't conventionally super-encrypt mail (with `Encrypt-Key:' headers), an observer on the network or at a remailer may be able to determine which public key corresponds to which nym, and use this to track messages. If you redirect your mail to news group alt.anonymous.messages without conventionally encrypting it, observers will be able to determine your nym's public key ID and observe how much mail you are getting. For this reason, you should conventionally encrypt your mail in addition to public-key encrypting it. If you only want to use conventional encryption for received mail, you can disable RSA encryption by sending signed/encrypted mail with 'Nym-Commands: -cryptrecv' to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. There is a large benefit to using public-key encryption, however. If you only use conventional encryption and your reply-block is compromised, previously recorded messages to you will be able to be decrypted. With RSA-encrypted messages, there is no way for anyone but you to read your mail once it has left nym.alias.net. With the `+signsend' option, nym.alias.net will sign all messages you send with its PGP key (adding a disclaimer at the end of the message). This is primarily to prevent simple mail forgery which is rendered even simpler by the fact that the sendmail on nym.alias.net doesn't keep logs. If you care about the authenticity of messages sent through your nym, however, you should probably publish its PGP key, set the `- signsend' Nym-Command configuration option, and PGP-sign all your outgoing messages yourself. Be aware, however, that the identity of a key on your PGP private key ring is stored in cleartext (even though the key itself is protected by a passphrase). Thus, if you publish your nym's public key, anyone who can gain access to your PGP secret keyring (or a backup tape containing it) will find out the identity of your nym, even if that person does not know your passphrase! For this rather unfortunate reason, you are faced with a tradeoff between authenticity and secrecy. One solution is to use software that keeps your nym's PGP keys on separate keyrings, and encrypts the entire keyrings. Premail is one software package that supports this. Send mail to or finger <premail- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> for more information on using premail with nym.alias.net. REPLY BLOCKS POINTING TO NEWSGROUPS Reply blocks offer you strong privacy by preventing any single remailer operator from finding out the identity of a pseudonym. Nonetheless, if an adversary manages to compromise all remailers in your reply block, he will learn your true identity. Moreover, a strongly enough motivated adversary could even operate several remailers himself, or eavesdrop on communication between remailers and analyze traffic patterns and message sizes to try to track you down. An essay describing some of the vulnerabilities of Type-1 remailers can be found at http://www.obscura.com/~loki/remailer/remailer-essay.html. If you need the very highest level of security, you should completely dissociate your identity from your pseudonym's reply block. Do this by forwarding your nym mail to a newsgroup rather than to your own E-mail address. Of course, retrieving messages from a newsgroup will be considerably more difficult than simply receiving mail, particularly as nym client software does not currently support newsgroups. Moreover, you may loose mail if you don't check for news often enough, as most news servers expire articles after a few days to a week. If do you decide to forward your nym mail to a newsgroup, you should use alt.anonymous.messages, a group which exists precisely to carry reply messages to anonymous users. To set up a reply block pointing to this group, you must change the innermost portion of the reply block. Recall that one begins a standard reply block like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_a A reply block that posts to usenet should start like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_a ## Subject: some sort of subject line is required Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server [The `##' marks tell remailers to paste headers into a mail message. The Newsgroups and Subject headers are required for news postings.] The rest of the procedure for creating the reply block is identical. Note that while sending your mail to a newsgroup makes it virtually impossible to track you down from your reply block, you should keep in mind that news servers usually log which newsgroups and how many articles you read. Thus, someone with a pretty good idea of who you are may actually have an easier time tracking you down if you use alt.anonymous.messages than if you don't. Much depends on the particulars of the news server you use. YOUR MAIL TO NYM.ALIAS.NET If you need high security you should also be careful with messages you send to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Though nym.alias.net does not keep mail logs, the machine from which you send mail may very well do so. Morever, you shouldn't be relying exclusively on nym.alias.net for your privacy. Even if the machine is secure, someone may be eavesdropping on its network traffic. Thus, avoid sending E-mail directly to the config and send addresses. Send your mail through anonymous remailers instead. You can send mail to nym.alias.net through the same Type-1 remailers you use to create your reply blocks. However, a second, stronger, category of remailers known as Type-2 or mixmaster remailers ofters higher security. Type-2 remailers may be worth using, particularly if you have avoided trusting Type-1 remailers by pointing your reply block to a newsgroup. More information about mixmaster remailers is available from http://www.obscura.com/~loki/. The mixmaster remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (short name "lcs") is on the same machine as nym.alias.net. You might want to add it to the end of your mixmaster chain when sending mail to nym.alias.net, as this should increase security without hurting reliability. Note that the higher security mixmaster message format prevents Type-2 remailers from working in reply blocks. POLICY Any use of this alias service to violate Massachusetts or US federal law is strictly prohibited. Additionally, you may not use this service for commercial or otherwise profit-generating purposes, as this would violate the acceptable use policy of the network on which nym.alias.net resides. Do not rely on this nym server to protect your identity. You should be relying far more heavily on the integrity of the remailers through which you chain your replies. The nym.alias.net service is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but the administrators can make no guarantees whatsoever that your identity will not be compromised. That said, we will make a reasonable effort to keep the machine secure and to prevent your reply block from being compromised. However, your reply block, PGP key, and nym configuration information will all be backed up to tape in encrypted form, and could potentially be retrievable by the administrators even after you delete your account. The server also keeps (and backs up in encrypted form) two statistics about your nym: First it counts the amount of mail your alias has received in the current 24 hour period, so as to detect flooding attacks and alias loops with exponential message explosion (see the description of the -disable Nym-Command for more info). Second, the server stores the date of the last day on which you sent a PGP-signed message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Nym.alias.net will not accept any mail messages larger than 1 Megabyte. In addition, your account will automatically be disabled if you send or receive more than about 10 Megabytes of mail in one day. Note, however, that this limit can be waived for individual aliases. If you wish to set up a middleman-style remailer, run an anonymous mailing list, or provide some other service to the community anonymously, you can contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pseudonymously to explain your intent and have the 10 Megabyte/day limit removed from your account. In order to garbage-collect abandoned accounts or accounts with lost PGP keys, your nym will be deleted if you don't send any PGP-signed mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for a period of 120 days. You should receive several warning messages before this happens, however, as long as your reply-block is still valid. It is probably a good idea to update your reply-block every few months anyway, and simply doing this will guarantee that your nym never expires. Nym.alias.net is the same machine as anon.lcs.mit.edu. Keep this in mind when choosing which remailers to chain through. (Using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your last hop for mail to nym.alias.net is probably a good idea if and only if you you also chain through one more hop than you would otherwise have felt comfortable with.) PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Here are some common problems you may have run into if you can't get your alias to work properly. If these aren't your problems, you can seek additional help by posting to the newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server. If you believe you have found a bug in the server software (and you definitely may have), please send anonymous, pseudonymous, or regular E- mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reporting the problem. When reporting a bug, include as detailed an account of the problem as possible. In addition, if the bug involves configuration requests or outgoing messages, please include in your bug report the entire PGP cyphertext of a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> message demonstrating the bug. Investigating bugs often involves debugging server software with the particular message that caused the problem. Therefore, if you submit a bug report from your real E-mail address rather than from a pseudonym, you should create a new throw-away nym on which to demonstrate the problem. Otherwise you may reveal your pseudonym to the administrators of nym.alias.net. COMMON PROBLEMS You can't create a pseudonym. You sent mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, never got a reply, and when you send mail to or finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the name you wanted does not show up as used. * You forgot to make the first line of your config message "Config:". Any message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which does not begin with a line "Config:" will be sliently discarded. * You did not encrypt your message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the nym.alias.net public key, or you forgot to sign it with your private key. Only encrypted messages are read by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and even your initial creation request must be signed by the public key you include in the configuration message. * You clearsigned the configuration message after encrypting it, instead of encrypting and signing at the same time. You must encrypt and sign configuration messages in one pass, using the command: pgp -seat message [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u "nym key ID" This should produce a message with the first line: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- If instead you run `pgp -eat ...', followed by `pgp -sat ...', you will get something like this: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA The nym server cannot decode such configuration messages. They will be bounced. * You forgot the -t option to PGP. When the nym server decrypts messages, it expects all lines to end LF. If you use an operating system which ends lines CR LF and you don't use the -t flag to PGP, your messages will contain unwanted CR characters which will pose problems when parsing the message headers. * Are the date and time correct on your computer? Nym.alias.net uses the timestamps in PGP signatures to help detect replay attacks on config and send messages. However, if the date on your computer is off by more than a few days, messages you send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be silently discarded. You created an alias on nym.alias.net, but never received a reply from the server. However, when you send mail to or finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the nym appears to have been created. When you send mail to your pseudonym, however, it bounces with the message "Account disabled." * Whenever you set a new reply block, you may required to confirm the validity of the new reply block before it gets put into use. Instructions on how to confirm a new reply block are always mailed out via that reply block, so that if your new reply block does not work properly you will be unable to confirm it. If you are creating a new account and thus don't have an existing reply block, any mail to your pseudonym will bounce. If you never received a confirmation for your creation request and mail to that pseudonym bounces, you probably have an invalid reply block. To fix this, just submit a new reply block, using a message like the following, signed/encrypted with `pgp -seat' and sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. (You don't need to supply Public-Key or Nym-Commands section, as these will already have been processed in your initial message.) Config: From: yournym Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latent-Time: +0:00 Encrypt-Key: passphrase_b :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ** See the next section for ideas on what may have gone wrong with your reply block. You can't receive mail. You think you created an alias. Mailing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> even shows your alias name got created. Maybe you can even send mail from your alias. However, any time you send mail to your alias you never receive anything. * Could you have a bad reply block? Try testing your reply block by mailing a short message with it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * Could you have forgotten the '**' (encrypt below) marks? Type-1 remailers require '**' marks to determine where conventional encryption should begin. If you omit the '**' marks, unpredictable behavior may result. Note that remailers leave the '**' marks themselves intact and only encrypt stuff below those marks. Thus, adding '**' only once in the final reply block will seem to work. However, this significantly weakens the security of your reply block, as anyone seeing your message go by can send one without the '**' and do traffic analysis much more easily on it. Encrypt the '**' and add a new one after each PGP encryption. * Did you remember to add :: Encrypted: PGP followed by a blank line before every PGP message in your reply block? Remailers won't decrypt PGP messages if the cyphertext is not preceeded by this. * Could you have forgotten a blank line between some '::' and '##' headers, or between a PGP reply-block and the next '**'? That might cause problems with some remailers. * Could you have inserted a whitespace character in a '::' header line (for instance ':: ')? Some remailers are very fussy about this and refuse to forward such messages. You receive mail, but it is not properly encrypted or the passphrases you chose do not work. * Did you remember the '**' line? * Does your passphrase contain a space character. If so, it may be that only the first word is being used to encrypt your mail. Try decrypting your mail with the first word of your passphrase. If it works, then the remailer you are using requires double quotes around multi-word passphrases, like this: Encrypt-Key: "multi word passphrase" It might be safest not to use spaces in your conventional encryption keys, but to use another character for separating words. * Are you giving an `Encrypt-Key:' header to a remailer that does not support this functionality? Look for the ek property of remailers on http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html. Those remailers without that property will not be able to encrypt mail using `pgp - c'. You have established a pseudonym. You can send mail. When you receive mail, however, the '**' and `-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----' lines are chopped off the beginning of the mail you receive. * This can happen when one of the remailers in your chain interprets the '**' or `-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----' lines as malformed message headers and discards them. To fix this, put a blank line before every '**', '::' (except the first), and `-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE---- -' line as you are creating your reply block. * It has been reported that this also happens if you have too many blank lines in your reply block. Therefore, make sure you have one and only one blank line in each appropriate place. At each stage of creating the reply block, it should look roughly like this: :: Anon-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- ... There is exactly one blank line before the second '::', and exactly one blank line before the `-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----'. You have been using nym.alias.net for a while without problems. Then, suddenly, one of your pseudonyms stops working. * It is possible that nym.alias.net is down. To determine whether this is in fact the case, visit http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer- list.html. Check the uptime statistics for the "nym" remailer. If "nym" is up, then nym.alias.net is working fine and not causing your problems. Do not send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saying nym.alias.net is down if the remailer list shows it is not down. * More likely, one of the remailers in your reply block is down (you can find this out from the remailer-list, too). If this is the case, you must submit a new reply block as described in the section on "CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR MAIL ALIAS". You created an alias on nym.alias.net, but then lost your pseudonym's PGP key. You would like to delete your old alias so that you can re- create it with a new PGP key. * Try at all costs to avoid loosing your nym's PGP key. If you loose it, you will need to wait 120 days for your account to expire. There is nothing else you can do. Nym.alias.net is designed for people who need high-grade privacy. While you may not need as much privacy as some, the administrators must respect the secrecy of sensitive accounts by refusing to perform any unauthenticated deletion or modification requests. If for some emergency reason you really need the administrators of nym.alias.net to do something to your account, you can send them a request if you clearsign it with your nym's PGP key. CLIENT SOFTWARE SUMMARY * Premail (for unix), is available at ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/remailer/premail. * Potato (for DOS/Windows) is available from http://www.bigfoot.com/~potatoware. * EasyNym (for DOS/Windows) is available from http://home.clara.net/j.davies/easynym/. * Private IDAHO (for DOS/Windows) is available from http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/pi.html. A newer version (recommended) is available from http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/pidaho/. FINGER ADDRESSES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the PGP public key for nym.alias.net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A copy of this help file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information on using nym.alias.net through premail--a tool which integrates remailers with most unix mail programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A list of all taken pseudonyms. E-MAIL ADDRESSES [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address to contact if you are having problems with nym.alias.net. Please DO NOT encrypt messages to this address with the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key. This key is only for use by the nym server and is not on any person's keyring. If you wish to encrypt mail for an administrator of nym.alias.net, use the PGP key for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, available by fingering that address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to this address gets you a copy of this help file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the PGP public key for nym.alias.net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send mail here to get a list of all taken pseudonyms. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address to which to send configuration messages. All messages to this address must be PGP encrypted and signed with "pgp -seat". In addition, THE FIRST LINE OF PGP-SIGNED TEXT IN A MESSAGE TO config MUST BE `Config:'. Otherwise your message will be completely ignored. When sending one or more reply-blocks to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, they must come at the end of the message after any `Public-Key:' or `Nym-Command:' headers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To send mail from your alias address, PGP encrypt and sign the message with "pgp -seat", and mail it to this address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address to contact for source to the nym server. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:23:08 +0100 From: Duncan Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MIME format? I have a few question about MIME format. In fact what is it? Whenever I request a web site using [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use the request command and then list my websites it the main body. However, some e-mail's I recieve back are a whole lot of crap, now I take it this is MIME format. So how do I read this, I use outlook express. Also why is it that some websites come back as normal text when I recieve an e-mail back? Thanks for any help given Duncan Torrie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:46:25 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: new user (was blank) At 10:51 AM 7/6/99 +0400, konev wrote the following: >Would anyone give me a piece of advice as to what to read first >to understand how the ACCMAIL works? Get the Accmail FAQ This document is now available from several automated mail servers. To get the latest edition, send email to one of the addresses below. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for US, Canada & South America) Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Europe, Asia, etc.) Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: send accmail.faq You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites: Site: rtfm.mit.edu get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email Site: ftp.mailbase.ac.uk get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt Then get my web pages: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/howto1.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/howto2.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/howto3.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:59:40 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NEWS: Search engines by email FAQs Cross-Posted to Accmail and Help-Net My search engines by email methods have all been updated as of the July 4, 1999 weekend. *************************************** ACCESSING THE WWW BY E-MAIL USER GUIDE TO WWW SEARCH ENGINES INTRODUCTION *************************************** Copyright (c) 1996-99, Gerald E. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version 3.5 02Jul99 Major Search Engines Covered and the Corresponding FAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AltaVista - (wsalta.faq) DejaNews - (wsdeja.faq) Dogpile - (wsdog.faq) Excite - (wsexcite.faq) HotBot - (wshotbot.faq) Inference - (wsifind.faq) InfoSeek - (wsiseek.faq) InfoSpace - (wsistb.faq) Lycos - (wslycos.faq) Metacrawler - (wsmeta.faq) SavvySearch - (wssavvy.faq) WebCrawler - (wscraw.faq) WhoWhere People Searches - (wswho.faq) Yahoo - (wsyahoo.faq) Speciality Search Engines Covered and the Corresponding FAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C|Net Shareware - (wscnet.faq) FileZ Search - (wsfilez.faq) FTP search - Trondheim, Norway - (wsftp.faq) PAML - Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists - (wspaml.faq) PC Quote Stock Market Search - (wspcq.faq) Religious Resources at the University of Virginia - (wsrelig.faq) Switchboard Telephone White Pages - (wsboard.faq) The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing - (wsfoldoc.faq) TheList - list of Internet providers - (wstlist.faq) Other Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to "crack" a Search Engine by E-Mail - (wscrack.faq) All of the files in one large ZIP file - (wssearch.zip) You can get the files by anonymous FTP at: get ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsintro.faq Or by Agora, Getweb, or W3mail send ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsintro.faq The introduction file (wsintro.faq) and How To "CRACK" Search Engines by E-mail (wscrack.faq) are located in the same places. If you desire all the files in one zip file, then download the file titled wssearch.zip -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:12:06 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rusiian in [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 07:35 PM 7/6/99 +0400, Nikita A. Pavlow wrote the following: >Is there any way to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] understand rusiian words? > >WBR, Nikita A. Pavlow >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://eaglegroup.da.ru >http://1001.vdv.ru(/arc/199.htm) It's not a problem of Russian words but FRAMES. http://eaglegroup.da.ru/ is just 2 large frames FRAME SRC="http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/tyrell/735".... FRAME SRC="http://www.da.ru/strip?eaglegroup.da.ru".... The second one is a pain in the ... Javascript site where the web page is framed by the Javascipt. <script language="JavaScript"> var height=0; var width=0; if (self.screen) { // for NN4 and IE4 width = screen.width height = screen.height } else if (self.java) { // for NN3 with enabled Java var jkit = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); var scrsize = jkit.getScreenSize(); width = scrsize.width; height = scrsize.height; } </script> The pages must be made by children or clueless "newbies"... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:43:12 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: keyboard layout At 02:27 PM 7/6/99 -0400, Roberto Safora wrote the following: >I need a place where I can find the layouts of the different keyboards >corresponding to different languages. Selected UniType Keyboard Layouts http://www.gy.com/www/ww1/ww2/keyboard.html Nice graphics of the keyboards -- need to retrieve each Arabic, Armenian, Bangldesh, Croatia, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greece, Greek, Gujarat, Hebrew, Hindi, Inuktitut, IPA, Kannada, Korean, Persian, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish, Ugartic, Urdu, and Vietnam. Lithuanian for Win 9x and NT http://www.kada.lt/litwin/keyboard.html Russian for Win 9x and NT http://www.kada.lt/litwin/keybru.html Sorry, I sure can't seem to find one for Spanish... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:41:02 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NEWS: Russian 8.3 version of "Accessing The Internet By Email" Accmailers, Alexander Ilyin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has translated v8.3 of the Accmail FAQ into Russian. Two versions are available: DOS codepage 866 -- accmail.rud Win codepage 1251 -- accmail.ruw To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: send accmail.rud or Subject: send accmail.ruw Leave the rest of the message blank. Nothing in the body... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:55:22 EDT From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Assembly language I'm not sure if this information is duplicative, but links to Assembly Language FAQs (and quite a few other self-study topics) may be found at http://www.cit.ac.nz/smac.cscourse.htm David Ames >------------------------------ > >Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:54:53 -0700 >From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Help > >At 09:41 AM 7/2/99 -0700, Osama B. Bahwal wrote the following: > >>2- Information about assembly language. > >x86 Assembly Language FAQs >http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/assembly-language/x86/ > >for a86 and d86, Borland (TASM), the general 3-part FAQ and for M$ >(MASM). > >-- >Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:50:02 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: MIME format? At 09:23 PM 7/6/99 +0100, Duncan Torrie wrote the following: >I have a few question about MIME format. In fact what is it? Short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they can be sent over the Internet. Many e-mail clients now support MIME, which enables them to send and receive graphics, audio, and video files via the Internet mail system. In addition, MIME supports messages in character sets other than ASCII. >So how do I read this, I use outlook express. If you have outlook setup to send plain ASCII text (which is recommended) then the MIME should come back as an attachment which can be viewed by Outlook. If not, then you will have to download a separate MIME decoder program. >Also why is it that some websites come back >as normal text when I recieve an e-mail back? No graphics... If you use kfs to retrieve my servers listing it will come back as plain text. However, howto1, howto2 and howto3 MAY come back as MIME because of the "stupid" Geocities logo that I have to put at the top of the page. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:38:09 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Tue 6 Jul 1999, posted Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:37:30 GMT Less than 1 hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-4 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] More than 10 hours None Response within 4 hours in at least 5 out of 7 recent tests [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't reply to .net or .com addresses. This data is generated automatically around 0600 GMT/BST most days. The performance reported is dependant on many factors and your experience may vary. You can also access this list: On the Web at http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/stats.htm (We recently discontinued the copy available via FTP) Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say "get file stats.txt" (no quotes) Want this list every day? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of your message put "join statistics" (no quotes) No liability is accepted for inaccuracies. Mirroring, links to and copying of this entire file (not extracts) is permitted until further notice. Slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! See http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ Copyright Net Services 1999. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:54:08 +1200 From: Craig Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Large posting) In a message dated 7/7/99, Gerald E. Boyd wrote >At 05:08 PM 7/6/99 +0400, coffin wrote the following: > >> Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] work ??? >> May there are some Like services at Internet ??? >> >> I test [EMAIL PROTECTED] but get Nothing ... > >Neither did I. However, according to the reliable remailer list as of >today nym is active. So maybe just the help file requests are slow... > >Here is the help file as of 27 May 1999: Nym.alias.net is having DNS problems, and is not currently reachable from many locations, if you going to set up a nym on alias.net use Squirrel as the last remailer in the chain to them. Johannes, (the Squirrel admin) has also set up a forwarding address to reach people with nyms at alias.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would suggest you set up a nym on Redneck([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the procedure is exactly the same, and redneck is working normally. Craig ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 21:35:54 EDT From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (Correction) RE: Interbot Service files Correction!! >For anyone who is interested: I have posted to my website a ZIP >of updated and new interbot service files to my web site. > >http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/3091/interbot.zip >or >http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/3091/interbot.txt *Should be ibotsvc.zip and ibotsvc.txt* OOOPs! Shame on me My own website no less. >the text file is actually a UUencoded version of the ZIP. Both >are quite small. > >I am willing to take more srevice files and add them to the ZIP. -- William Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/3091/ ------------------------------ End of ACCMAIL Digest - 5 Jul 1999 to 6 Jul 1999 (#1999-188) ************************************************************
