fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu (Paul Fishwick) (12/08/89)
RE: Anonymous Postings Capability --------------------------------- Several e-mail correspondents (of whom I am one) have the need to vote on "best paper" suggestions. We feel that this voting process should be completely anonymous, which means that we need some mechanism for mailing to an address so that our identifications are kept confidential. Does anyone have a cute shell script to do this, or is there some existing address that will serve this purpose for anonymous postings? I can see that some anonymous postings could be used for malevolent purposes such as flaming arbitrary people. However, for certain types of voting purposes, anonymous postings could be very useful. I look forward to any thoughts or leads. Thanks -paul +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Prof. Paul A. Fishwick.... INTERNET: fishwick@bikini.cis.ufl.edu | | Dept. of Computer Science. UUCP: gatech!uflorida!fishwick | | Univ. of Florida.......... PHONE: (904)-335-8036 | | Bldg. CSE, Room 301....... FAX is available | | Gainesville, FL 32611..... | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (12/08/89)
Mail everything to a dummy address, them pass each message through a filter which removes the header (or part of it, like all but date) and the sig, then remails. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) (12/10/89)
The easy solution: mail the votes to someone you trust: a disinterested party who will tally the votes anonymously. Or are you saying you would trust software more than people? - Brian