--- William Beaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If Wikipedia started out using the simple > email-verified registration > which nearly all WWW forums use to exclude > trolls/flamers/spammers, it > would be a very different resource today. >
There are two anonymizing utilities, Tor and Privoxy, which can be used together for anonymous surfing with a web browser. that includes signing up to webmail sites like yahoo.com and then subscribing to a list such as Wikipedia, or even Vortex. Since you have a real email address, you can confirm a subscription if required to do so, but neither the webmail site nor the list you are subscribing to knows your real IP. At the moment then, requiring an email address to be confirmed may not mean that the subscriber can be traced. I have the feeling that won't last, because more of the webmail sites are requiring that Java or Javascript be turned on in the browser before allowing you to sign up. Doing that lets the site to get past the protection of Tor and Privoxy and find out your real IP. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
