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Re: Anonymous posting under 1.64

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From: Darren Paul Loher
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 14:08
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root@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:

>In article <1992Apr6.164858.1714@mercury.unt.edu> darren@sol.acs.unt.edu (Darren Paul Loher) writes:
>>Is there anyway to remove the time/date stamp on anonymous posts?
>>(local forum, DOS Waffle 1.64) 
>>

>I suppose you could always go into the directory and remove it manually. But
>what's the point?

Well, if someone was curious about who actually posted anonymously, all they
would have to do is type 'list' and get a list of the last 20 or so callers.
In this list is the time those people called.  Even if you could remove the
time stamp from the caller display, anonymous messages would have time stamps
really close to the time of other, non-anonymous posts from the same user.
So, that doesn't completely solve the problem either.  

Is there a way to modify the output of the 'LIST' command, without the
source code?  I don't remember seeing anything about it in the static file.
-- 
Darren Loher                                Data Communications
darren@sol.acs.unt.edu                   University of North Texas
darren@elecafe.dent.tx.us      "A bar of soap just flew through my window!"
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Subject: Re: Anonymous posting under 1.64
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