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Preface
Sending email and news messages anonymously has both pro and con
arguments. Freedom of speech in America is a very coveted right that most
citizens agree upon. Some people will argue that anonymous remailers will be
used for evil purposes and therefore, no one should be allowed to use them. It
is this authors position that no excuse should be embraced that interferes with
our Constitutional rights, including our right to freedom of speech, including the
freedom to speak anonymously.
Purpose of this document: This document will attempt to explain through step
by step instructions how to set up the following programs that will anonymously:
1a. Send emails and 1b. post news to news groups using the QuickSilver
program.
2. Read and post news to news groups using MesNews and send emails
through remailers using QuickSilver through the secure tunnel Stunnel.
3. Manually set up a pseudo-anonymous email account on an nym server.
4. Post news to news groups and send emails through remailers using the news
reader MesNews through the OmniMix switchbox program (also through Tor).
All of these programs are excellent free clients, however, they can be somewhat
intimidating for many users to set up on their own. OmniMix can be especially
intimidating because it has many abilities that do not pertain to your needs.
A word of caution: An adversary might have the ability to determine which
news groups you are accessing with the 'MesNews with OmniMix' and 'Gravity
with OmniMix' setup instructions. They will not be able, however, to determine
which individual news articles your are viewing and/or replying to if you follow
these setup instructions carefully. For completely anonymous access to news
groups, see the instructions in the 'OmniMix with Tor' section.
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The author of this document has done his best to make the content herein
as accurate as possible. Some inquiries as to program functions were left
unanswered, however. The author is not an expert on the remailer or Tor
systems. Any suggested corrections are welcome and will be changed or
included in future versions.
For further help with setting up these programs, or any questions concerning
anonymous email, anonymous news posting, and remailers, inquire at the news
group: alt.privacy.anon-server