Hello Jonathan,

On 23 May 2005 at 22:30:54 GMT -0500 (which was 05:30:54 where I
live), Jonathan Angliss wrote and made these valuable points on the
subject of "Anonymous emails?":

> Hi Peter Palmreuther,
> On Sunday, May 22, 2005, you wrote:

>> Hello St,

>> On Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 5:40:50 PM St [SMN] wrote:

>>>> I want to be totally invisible and untraceable. If I'm browsing the web, 
>>>> I'm using a
>>>> tunnel (proxy server 127.0.0.1:8080) that totally hides my identify (IP 
>>>> address) ...

SMN>>>   ...are you really sure you are invisible...

>> He is! I bet he blocks packets of type "ICMP Echo request" and drops
>> them on his firewall, therefore he's *absolutely invisible*!!! Trust
>> me!1!eins!elf!! ;-)

> *coughs* black hole *coughs*...

> Problem with blocking ICMP echo requests is it is just as bad as
> having them enabled... People can still see you there, you just appear
> as a "black hole" sucking in the packets ;)

I'm not trying to hide myself in this case..I'm just behind a firewall to 
protect my PC...like (hopefully) many firewall users are trying to accomplish.

-- 
Best regards,
 Dick

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