XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Maria Sophia  wrote:   
      
   You wrote a followup to my article that commented on nothing I had   
   written.   
      
   >Since privacy is everything on the Internet, I think now that the standard   
   >process each newsreader uses likely maintains the privacy change all along.   
      
   >This is the flow I'm belatedly beginning to understand better:   
   > user > nntp server > smtp server > moderator > acceptance > posting   
      
   >If that's the correct typical flow, and given the fact that it's publicly   
   >accepted to obfuscate identity on Usenet, since email is required in that   
   >flow, what smtp and nntp server does the moderator's process utilize?   
      
   The user did not send an email message and isn't using an SMTP server.   
   His privacy in the use of SMTP to forward the proto article isn't at   
   issue. The moderation process is a mail2news gateway, either manual on   
   the moderator's host receiving an email message, adding the Approved   
   header, then using a newsreader to send the approved article to a News   
   server where it's injected. The gateway may be remote to the moderator,   
   like use of the complicated WebSTUMP application.   
      
   The moderator's News server is in the headers.   
      
   Since the user is involved in nothing after composing the proto article,   
   what the hell is the privacy concern? You keep claiming to have privacy   
   concerns. You never state what they are.   
      
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