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Posting an article without a traceable identity in the From or Path headers, historically arranged through remailers or mail2news gateways. The injecting server still records the originating address, and providers keep posting logs to answer abuse complaints, so the practice conceals an author from other readers far more effectively than from the server operator. Most of the supporting infrastructure has shut down.
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