Untraceble email back to my computer/identity ?

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On 25 May 2005 13:01:01 -0700, someone posing as internet@spamhole.com
donned fireproof bloomers and chiseled in the wall:

> Hello
>
> I live in a non-US country and would like to report something illegal
> via email, however I am fearful of the email being traced back to me
> somehow.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation on how to do this?

Use Hotmail.


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Alan Connor wrote:
> On comp.mail.misc, in
> <1117051261.763001.195860@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "internet@spamhole.com" wrote:
>
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I live in a non-US country
>
>
> Sure you do. And you are stupid enough to expect us to
> believe a word you say after going on (snipped part below)
> about using proxies and anonymous remailers, which you
> are obviously very familiar with.
>
>
>>and would like to report something
>>illegal via email, however I am fearful of the email being
>>traced back to me somehow.
>
>
> Right.
>
> If you want to report something illegal anonymously, use
> snail mail.
>
> That's what people with brains do.

Not if they know they are a suspect and know anything about modern
forensic document analysis. If you are sure you are not being followed
and can get access to a computer then I would suggest that you would be
safer using email than post if you wanted to be a whistleblower.

>
> Trolls, not having any brains, are always looking for ways
> to post to various servers anonymously.
>
> They don't realize that the only reason that no one has
> tracked them down (or rather, bothered to do anything
> with that information) is that no one has any reason
> to do so: Trolls don't DO anything but run their
> ignorant mouths on the Internet.

Yes they do, they live under bridges......

>
> No one is going to take information that comes via
> an 'anonymous' email seriously. Unlike trolls, most
> people have functioning minds.
>

Actually, I'd tend to disagree with that. It's like saying that nobdy
takes what comes in an unsigned note seriously and law enforcement
organizations do that all the time.


> <snip>
>
> Spealing of trolls, I see that "Sam" has posted
> something again.
>
> 174:[Sam ] XXXXXXX
>
> My newsreader strips the body, and extraneous headers from
> the posts of known trolls, and changes the Subject to
> XXXXXX as above.
>
> I suppose that he is complaining about his Mommy not
> changing his diapers often enough again.
>
> AC
>
>