Re: Yarn, Anonymous Posting, PGP and stuff...
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 22:12:05 -0700
"Douglas Tan" <dougtan@softhome.net> wrote:
>I've been wondering if anyone out there has any knowledge of using Yarn
>with to post anonymously. Yes, I do mean anon remailers and nymservers.
>
>I'm using OS/2 and it lacks anonymous posting utilities which abound for
>the Windows platform like Potato etc. To post anonymously under OS/2, one
>has to manually encode each message and add the appropriate headers after
>each level of encryption, which makes all this a very time-consuming task.
> I'd appreciate it if someone either port a few of the *nice* anon posting
>utilities (got to ask <G>) to OS/2 or let me know of a way to minimise the
>trouble of posting anonymously with Yarn.
Potato is a DOS program. I use it every day in a DOS box under Win95, and
get 10-50 messages from a remailer that are painlessly and automatically
decrypted and then brought up in my fave editor, Aurora. Posting is more
awkward, but still far easier than using the excellent Private Idaho, in my
opinion.
I don't use OS/2, but since it runs DOS programs, it should run Potato as
easily as Win95 does, I believe. If you want more details of my setup,
don't hesitate to ask.
-rex