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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 01:40:49 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- In article <1h5os6INNkrf@morrow.stanford.edu> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
- >In article <1h5mrdINNkgk@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu
- >(Steve Pope) writes:
- >>
- >>Discouraged to the extent that well below 1% of WELL subscribers
- >>have pseudonymous privileges. To me this is the same
- >>as "unavailable".
- >
- >This is nonsense. It's not meaningful to judge the
- >availability of a feature without considering how many
- >people desire the feature.
-
- No, my statement was totally meaningful. Pseudonymity is
- available to less than 1% of WELL subscribers. It is
- available to 100% of people on Usenet since pseudonymous
- servers are now part of the Usenet infrastructure.
-
- >Part of the culture on the WELL is to accept responsibility
- >for one's own words.
-
- Unless you're a celebrity.
-
- >Another part of the culture is strong
- >pressure to respect other participants.
-
- I submit that the culture of respect is just as strong here
- on Usenet as it is on the WELL.
-
- >This provides both
- >a positive incentive to make one's real name available and
- >the lack of a common deterrent to doing so.
-
- And you'll notice that both you and I are posting to
- Usenet under our real names. The same positive incentive
- exists here on Usenet without any restrictive policy
- on pseudonymity.
-
- >--
- >
- > Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- > (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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