Some kinds of mailing lists benefit from allowing people to
be anonymous when they post. For example, an employee suggestion discussion
might need to be anonymous, as might a psychological support group.
Lyris supports Anonymous mailing
lists, by removing all identifying marks from the headers of the messages
distributed to the mailing list. The From: defaults to "Anonymous"
and can be set to something else if desired.
If a list is moderated, the
moderator will see the real author of the message before approving it, and it
will "anonymize" when distributed.
Of course, this feature cannot read
English, so if the message contents contains something which identifies the
person, Lyris cannot do anything about that. Thus, people should remember to
not include their personal mail footers when posting to an anonymous mailing
list.