I'll bet you sometimes want to send a post to usenet without worrying that your wife or boss or friends or police or CIA can trace it back to you. It might be a thoughtful critique of the current mess, or it might be a worthless pile of steaming offal, but no matter - you want to get it off your chest! Without consequences! You probably think you need to spend hours, days, weeks studying all about encryption and computers and so on, or that you have to pay some 'anonymity' service good money, and probably not be so anonymous anyway. Well, I have good news for you. You can get as anonymous as you want, you can do it for free, and you learn to do it in 30 minutes. Getting anonymous - really anonymous - is not that hard to do, believe me. Follow the steps below, ask questions in alt.privacy.anon-server if you have problems, and join the crowd of average people who post whatever they want, without fear of the boss, police, etc. The more people that send anonymous messages, the more difficult it is to trace individual messages. Enlarge the crowd, make anonymous posting your *usual* way to post, and strike a blow for anonymity and freedom of speech. 30 MINUTES TO ANONYMITY This little tutorial assumes you are using windows 98 or later. Use your browser to download Quicksilver from ftp://quicksilvermail.net/pub/quicksilver/QS1.2.6b2.exe Run the setup program that you downloaded. During setup, it will prompt you to download Mix, an additional program that will do the encrypting / decrypting, and will also download lists of pingers, and a list of current remailers and their keys. Don't worry about what pingers or remailers are; just let the program do its stuff. It will install Mix, and copy in the remailers, keys, etc. Once that's been done, and it's pretty automatic, you can start sending anon messages, allowing Quicksilver to pick the most reliable remailers. Try sending your test messages to a test group such as misc.test or alt.test.