From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Maria Sophia  wrote:   
      
   > Every January 1st, I change the moniker on many of my accounts for privacy.   
   >   
   > The rest of the headers are completely random from dictionary lookups   
   > (as my "newsreader" is actually a bunch of scripts using telnet & gVim).   
      
   Hmm, are your scripts smart enough to incorporate AI to the extent   
   available to parse and analyze the content of articles you retrieve from   
   the NNTP server?  Nope, so why do you expect other NNTP clients capable   
   of such AI feats?   
      
   > I'm not "hiding from you".   
      
   We've been over that before.  Nymshifting *is* hiding.  Nymshifting and   
   content are distinct from each other, just like farting when entering   
   someone else's car doesn't excuse you after giving the driver a gift.   
   They might ignore the offense, but it is an offense.  Pick a Usenet   
   identity, or go away despite your ego stroking to supply unsolicited   
   help.   
      
   > I change nothing but the headers. Hence, if you   
   > can't figure out who I am in less than about ten seconds based on what I   
   > write and how I write it ...   
      
   Oh yes, AI has infiltrated NNTP clients, so they can all parse and   
   analyze your content.  Uh huh.  No filters can identify you by your   
   style or content, only by specific words in the body (and some NNTP   
   clients doesn't even have filters with conditions that can look inside   
   the body of posts).   
      
   > If you have no understanding of privacy, ...   
      
   Don't participate in Usenet if you are extremely paranoid regarding your   
   privacy.  Establish a Usnet identity.  That does NOT mandate you divulge   
   your personal identity.  You think my parents name me VanguardLH?   
      
   So, every year, we have to update our nymshifter filters to account for   
   your repeated nymshifting.  And that is after we start to recognize your   
   content as typical of your prior nyms.   
      
   So, how many nyms have you used, so far?  What was your prior one?  How   
   many have you used in the last year?  Over all years you've been   
   nymshifting?  If you are indeed not hiding then you won't mind divulging   
   your prior nyms.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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