On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:15:31 -0400, Chris F Clark wrote:
> Does this help explain that even if the I is small, so may be the R in
> the ROI equation? To be anonymous, there must be someone else who
> looks similar enough that you can plasuibly say, it wasn't me, it was
> him. To be truly anonymous, there must be many others like that.
>
> The point is I don't want you getting a false sense of security. You
> may still not be as anonymous as you hope.

Hi Chris Clark.

You must be an amazing guy!

More good points in your yet again well thought out response. I'm amazed
you have taught me something for the third time ... (much of what has been
said up 'till now has been repeats of the same thing).

I must admit, despite the fact I said previosly any script kiddie could
write the program, I don't have the facilities (nor inclination) to spit
out all the archived nntp messages on google to then search the headers for
my NNTP posting host to then compare to see how often my unique header
shows up.

Which, in a way, makes your (and others') point in that it's just not worth
the effort. Yes. Unless that program were written by someone (it probably
has been written ... we just don't know about it).

Once the program is written, then it would be trivial to do what you
suggested I try.

This isn't too off topic to ask:

RELATED QUESTION:
Does anyone know of a freeware program, already written, that will search
archived google posts (given a start/stop date) to spit out those posts
which have a given NNTP posting host?

Note: Please no wisecracks saying "google" (as google does NOT apparently
index the NNTP posting host as far as my tests can tell).