Let's assume you have Quicksilver running. Now you want to send 
some test posts, or real posts. 

Click on the 2nd icon from the left, near the top of the screen. 
When you hold the cursor over it, you will see 'templates....'.

When you open it, you will see a short list; click on 'anonymous 
followup'.

You will then see a window where you can compose your message.
At the top of the window you will see several lines, looking 
something like this:

Fcc: outbox
Host: my.smtp.com
From: myrealemaiaddress@myisp.com
Chain: *,*,*,*,*;copies=5
To: mail2news@news.gradwell.net,mail2news@dizum.com
From: myfakeemailaddress@fakeisp.com
Subject: My Test Message
Newsgroups: alt.test,misc.test

You won't see these fields filled in as above, but you will 
need to fill them in in order to post anonymously. Here are 
the fields above with a description of each one.


Fcc: outbox

Leave as is


Host: my.smtp.com

this is your isp's smtp server. You would have filled this
in to send email messages through your regular email program.
Yes, you will be sending _email_ in order to post to a news
group. Don't worry, it's easy.

From: myrealemaiaddress@myisp.com
this is your real email address at your isp.
don't worry, it will not show up on any messages
you send. It's just that your isp needs this
information to send out your message.

No, they won't know anything about your message
since it will be encrypted, and will be going
to a 'remailer', not to the ultimate destination.

They won't know a thing about it.


Chain: *,*,*,*,*;copies=5

each of the asterisks represents a remailer that your
message will pass through before it finally gets to
whatever newsgroup you want the message to arrive at.

Each remailer can tell what remailer the message came
from, and what remailer it is going to; beyond that,
the remailer has no idea of where the message is
going.

The message is encrypted multiple times, once for each
remailer, and each remailer can only decrypt the 'layer'
that is intended for it. All it sees after decrypting
its layer is another encrypted message, and the
address of the remailer to send it to.

with 5 remailers in a chain, it is almost impossible, even
for the CIA, to figure out where a message came from
that shows up in a newsgroup.

the 'copies=5' part means that 5 copies of the message
are sent through 5 sets or 'chains' of remailers, with
the last remailer in each chain being the same one.
The reason for doing this is to help ensure that the
message gets to the last remailer.


To: mail2news@news.gradwell.net,mail2news@dizum.com

I mentioned that you are sending an email message
even though you want it to end up in a newsgroup.
by including this header, the message, after getting
to the last remailer in your chain, will be sent to
these mail-to-news 'gateways'.
The gateways will send it to a news server, and it
will then show up in whatever newsgroups you
designated.


From: myfakeemailaddress@fakeisp.com

If you want to specify a fake 'from' address on the
message, put it here. If you don't put anything here,
the remailer will put some default 'from' address
on the message.

Be aware that not every remailer allows a custom 'from'
header. If you choose, as the last remailer in the chain,
one that does not allow the custom 'from' header, then
it will substitute its own default header for yours.


Subject: My Test Message

Obvious I hope


Newsgroups: alt.test,misc.test

You can specify up to 5 newsgroups, separated by commas.


If you have questions, please ask in alt.privacy.anon-server