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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 04:23:17 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- References: <1h5qkoINNl60@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.032925.27653@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.032925.27653@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes:
- >Steve Pope (spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu) wrote:
- >: I do not think the WELL's policies are off limits
- >: for discussion just because their subscribers are
- >: all happy. If you lobotomized all 12-year-olds then
- >: the high schools would be full of kids who are
- >: happy. Does that make lobotimization good policy?
- >
- >Very virtuous, that you have elected yourself the savior of all
- >WELLperns. It's a joke to think they are all placid on *any* issue that
- >could possibly be imagined, however; much less, lobotomized.
-
- You are trying too hard to read between the lines.
- I did not intend to imply that WELL users are lobotomized.
- Since you brought it up I find it amusing, but I
- don't consider it true even in a highly exagerrated sense.
-
-
- >The "policy" conference on The WELL, where this type of issue would be
- >discussed, is one of the most rife (and interesting) places of
- >contention on the entire system.
-
- At this point I'm willing to believe that...
-
- >Again, I'm just not sure what you
- >think The WELL's management could do in this regard that would somehow
- >be "better."
-
- Perhaps explain themselves, and spell out who is or
- isn't entitled to a pseudonymous account.
-
- Or allow them to anybody.
-
- Or disallow them categorically.
-
- Any of the above would be more consistent than the
- present circumstance.
-
- Steve
-