2.5 What's the deal with all these messages from "Anon." Mail Addresses?
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This article is from the Internet Personals: Advice for Gay Men FAQ, by Fred Young nssf@greatwildwest.net and Dean Esmay esmay@syndicomm.com with numerous contributions by others.
2.5 What's the deal with all these messages from "Anon." Mail Addresses?
Anonymous users. This feature is most common to Usenet, but you do
see it in some of the Web services. It allows someone to create
messages without having their actual e-mail address on it. Instead
they use the anonymous address, and when you write to that
anonymous address, it forwards your letter to the person's real
address, which you never see unless he decides to tell you.
Now, there are several "anonymous name servers" out there that
allow people to post on Usenet, or send and receive e-mail
anonymously. How this is done is beyond the scope of this FAQ;
however, the Remailer List at
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html could be a
good starting point.
There are also a number of Web personal services that offer
anonymous mail as an option. Those services will have instructions
on them for how to use and access that feature.
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