On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:04 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a desire to have employees send all-staff questions to
> [email protected] but have the sender be anonymous. We currently use
> surveymonkey but I have been asked if it’s feasible to just tell our
> employees to send an e-mail and have it arrive at a mailbox anonymously.
> The only think I can think of is having an intermediate mail account that
> forwards but strips the original header.

  You could prolly whip up a simple HTML form, and then use FormMail
or TFMail[1][2] to submit it, without asking for the sender's name or
ID.  Whether this use of your time is more cost-effective than just
paying SurveyMonkey is your org's call.

  As has been pointed out, one could trace it to a submitting client
by comparing form submission times against the IIS logs, and then look
up who was logged in the client at the time, but that's sufficiently
complicated that it may be "just the right amount of anonymity".
I.e., it won't be obvious who said what, but if someone makes death
threats you can trace it if needed.

-- Ben

[1] http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

[2] Or their Microsoftian equivalents[3]

[3] I'm sure someone's done one in VBScript/ASP/whatever by now


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