Sending Anonymous Postings to Newsgroups VIA Mail2NEWS Using Your Nym.Alias.Net Account.

Last Updated on Aug. 4, 1997

The process described below will not give you instant gratification. It normally takes 24 hours before you will see your Message Posted to the newsgroup(s) that you selected.

You must have already created your nym account, before following the steps below. If you have not done so, please select nymnew2.html.
Select File and then Address Book.
Enter send@nym.alias.net into your Address Book and then select Save.
Select Clear All from the Edit Menu
Select Auto-close PGP from the PGP menu.
Select the PGP Menu and click on Options, click on the Prompt for USER ID on signing.
Then click the USER ID button. You will need to enter all of your valid nym accounts, such as <bozo@nym.alias.net>. When done click on the OK button twice.
Please note, when entering your anonymous email account in the USER ID fields, enter the opening and closing brackets in addition to the text that lays between the angled brackets as shown, <bozo@nym.alias.net>.
The next thing we need to do is to create a BLOCK of text that we will use as a template whenever we want to send an anonymous Usenet Post.
- Select Edit from the menu and select Options.
- In the Header section, paste the text below:
```
From:
Nym-Commands: -acksend
To: mail2news@nym.alias.net
Subject:
Newsgroups:
x-no-archive: yes
References:
```
In the From field, you will type the nym that you will be using for this POST. If you only will be creating ONE nym, then you can enter this information into the header section, and your nym will be pasted automatically for you.
In the To: field, mail2news@nym.alias.net has been a reliable mail2news gateway. However, you may substitute your favorite mail2news gateway here.
In the Subject field, type in whatever the subject is for your POST.
x-no-archive, prevents your posts from being archived by dejanews and other like services.
In the References: field, you may use this line to REPLY to a prior post. Delete this line, if you are not replying to a post. Replying to prior posts is explained below.

This is the way things should look in the message window before posting your message.

From: bozo
Nym-Commands: -acksend
To: mail2news@nym.alias.net
Subject: Ignore Test
Newsgroups: alt.test
x-no-archive: yes

This is a test message please ignore. Please note that I skipped a line after
the x-no-archive: yes prompt.

Now that everything is setup properly lets create an anoynmous newspost using YOUR NYM.
- Clear everything from the To: field and Message Window in Private Idaho, by selecting Clear All from the Edit menu.
- In the To: box enter send@nym.alias.net
- Place your cursor In the Message Window of Private Idaho. Do NOT type a subject in the TOP Subject Field. You will enter a subject on the Subject line in the message window.
- Select the Edit menu and select Insert Header. Please note, you can also hit the CTRL-H keys simultaneously to get the same effect.
- The header that you created earlier, should now be pasted in the message window as follows.
```
From:
Nym-Commands: -acksend
To: mail2news@nym.alias.net
Subject:
Newsgroups:
x-no-archive: yes
References:


Skip a line and type in a message like this.
```
- Before sending our message we need to fill in the blanks and delete what we don't want to include from the headers that we pasted. Since this is an original POST, we will delete the References line. The message window should look like the following BEFORE going to the next step. DO NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE TEXT THAT IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE PARENTHESES. Also, there is ONE space after EACH colon.
```
From: yournym (type in your nym here, for example, bozo)
Nym-Commands: -acksend
To: mail2news@nym.alias.net (you may enter a different gateway, if you so
choose)
Subject: Test, Please Ignore (Enter the REAL subject)
Newsgroups: alt.test,alt.anonymous,alt.anonymous.messages (No spaces between
newsgroups)
x-no-archive: yes


Your message goes here AFTER you skip one line.
```
- We're almost there. Select the PGP menu and click on Encrypt and Sign Message.
- Private Idaho will present you with a box of Multiple Users ID's for you to select. Select the SAME Nym ID that you typed into the From field in the Message window. In our example above, we would select bozo@nym.alias.net
- Click the OK button
- Private Idaho will invoke PGP and you will be asked to enter your password for your nym.
- If the password is correct, your message window will have encrypted text within it.
- You can select a remailer, if you want to before sending the message. To do so:
  - Select a remailer from the remailer window. I personally like two, but for example purposes, you should only select one. Therefore, select remailer@replay.com.
  - Select Message from the menu and then select Append Info. This will cause Private Idaho to invoke PGP which will encrypt the message again, with replay.com's PGP key.
  - Your message window should now look something like this:
```
::
Encrypted: PGP

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: 2.6.2
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=mzKp
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
```
  - The To: box has changed from send@nym.alias.net to remailer@replay.com
- You can now click the Send button in Private Idaho, or transfer this information to your email program.
- That's it. Now you'll have to be patient and wait for your message to be posted with YOUR NYM.
Replying to Newsgroup Posts:
- Well wouldn't it be nice to reply to a post in thread order? That's what I"m going to show you how to do now.
- In order for you to reply to a specific post, you need to know the Message-ID and/or the References for that particular post. If you're using a program like Agent or Free Agent, you can show the message header by typing the letter "H" on the keyboard. This will toggle headers on and off.
- Here is a sample message and its header section below:
- The important data elements above are:
  - Message-ID
  - Subject
  - Newsgroups
- To reply to this particular thread you would need to structure your message as follows:
  - In the To: box of Private Idaho enter send@nym.alias.net
  - Do NOT type a subject in the TOP Subject Field. You will enter a subject on the Subject line in the message window.
  - Place your cursor In the Message Window of Private Idaho.
  - Select the Edit menu and select Insert Header. Please note, you can also hit the CTRL-H keys simultaneously to get the same effect.
  - The header that you created earlier, should now be pasted in the message window as follows:
  - You need to enter:
    - Your nym on the From: line
    - The EXACT Subject that you are replying to
    - The newsgroup(s) you want your post to go to
    - All Message-ID's AND References from the Message that
      you are replying to in the References: section
  - Your message window should now look like this:
  - Select PGP | ENCRYPT and sign message from the PGP menu of Private Idaho.
  - Send your message or transfer the message to your email program.
  - Please note that, if you are replying to the INITIAL post, which we are NOT in this example, then you would prepend the subject with a Subject: Re: Which would look like this:
  - Also note that there may be Multiple MESSAGE-ID's and References in the header section of the message that you will be replying to.
  - You must include ALL MESSAGE-ID's and References in the Reference section of the post that you are replying to, with ONE SPACE between each Reference or Message-ID as follows:
  - IMPORTANT: Always place the MESSAGE-ID of the message you are replying to LAST in the list of References. For example, if your header section looks like the following:
  - You would paste the Message-ID: <A3uXaDAPvh4zIwX4@dial.howto.com> LAST in the Reference list as follows:
    
    From: bozo
    Nym-Commands: -acksend
    To: mail2news@nym.alias.net
    Subject: Replying to Newspost Using Private Idaho
    Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp
    x-no-archive: yes
    References: <oncX+BACUx4zIw8t@list.com> <r4sV7DAnYhxzIwTt@dial.pip.com> <19970711163251.15406.qmail@nym.alias.net> <oQQpzMAUX2xzIwgv@dial.pip.com> <19970803193740.16264.qmail@nym.alias.net> <A3uXaDAPvh4zIwX4@dial.howto.com>
    
    Your message/reply goes here after skipping one line
  - Select PGP | ENCRYPT and sign message from the PGP menu of Private Idaho.
  - Send your message or transfer the message to your email program.
I hope this article has been of benefit to a few. Should you find any errors or omissions to this article, please let me know.

For instructions on how to send anonymous posts to newsgroups via an EMAIL GATEWAY account, read News3nym.faq

For instructions on how to send Anonymous Email using Private Idaho's Nym Funtion, read Mailnym2.faq.

Sending Anonymous Postings to Newsgroups VIA Mail2NEWS Using Your Nym.Alias.Net Account.

Last Updated on Aug. 4, 1997

The process described below will not give you instant gratification. It normally takes 24 hours before you will see your Message Posted to the newsgroup(s) that you selected.

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