> On SportsNight (the best show you're not watching, according to TV
> guide), there was a reference to anonymous remailers this past Tuesday.
> Is this the first mention in pop culture?
Maybe the first one on TV, but remailers have been mentioned in
various pieces of fiction, for example:
| This month (May 1998) in the literary journal "Playboy", there is a short
| fiction piece by Brendan DuBois entitled "Netmail". The story involves a
| case of blackmail using a nymserver which is very similar to
| anon.penet.fi, but transplanted just across the water to Sweden
| (anon.service.se). Even child porno pics get worked in.
|
| Oh, there are pictures, too, for those who don't like fiction.
and of course Stephenson's book.
