Anonymous mail

[Philip Peake]

In article <499 at fai.UUCP> stevem at fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes:
>In article <5357 at cbrma.UUCP> ask at cbrma.UUCP (A.S.Kamlet(Art)) writes:
>>In article <387 at cullvax.UUCP> news at cullvax.UUCP (Mail and USENET News System maintenance account) writes:
>>>We are considering putting in an 'anonymous mail' facility, for use as
>>>a suggestion box.  The question is, is there an easy/known way to
>>>implement it.

>Here's an even simplier suggestion -- write a simple script like the following
>which temporarily changes the environmental variables and then sets them
>back.  The following works under system 5.  It may have to be modified
>for BSD:
>------------------------------cut here and save-------------------------------
>
>SAVE1='LOGNAME'
>SAVE2='NAME'
>LOGNAME="proper\!unknown\!poster"
>NAME="I. A. M. Anonymous"
>export LOGNAME NAME
>mailx $1
>LOGNAME='SAVE1'
>NAME='SAVE2'
>export LOGNAME NAME

Of course, you could always do it as follows:

LOGNAME=Anonymous NAME="who ?" mailx $1

Philip