home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!mnemonic
- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.043110.1733@eff.org>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 04:31:10 GMT
- References: <1h5qkoINNl60@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.024013.29642@eff.org> <1h63l0INNmdh@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Distribution: inet
- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Lines: 27
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
-
- In article <1h63l0INNmdh@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >When on their behalf I inquired about this among well users, the uniform
- >answer was that exceptions were made primarily for
- >celebrities. I then posted this information (which nobody
- >has refuted, btw) here to see what others thought.
-
- In my lexicon, "primarily" does not mean "exclusively."
-
- It seems likely that WELL management took your question to concern the
- kinds of instances in which WELL users seek anonymity--they quite
- correctly told you that it was mostly celebrities who sought it.
-
- It is quite a leap from this assertion to your conclusions. As I have said
- before, I've never known a non-celebrity who wanted an anonymous WELL
- account to fail to get one. Have you?
-
-
- --Mike
-
-
-
- --
- Mike Godwin, |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
- mnemonic@eff.org| The only one that's coming."
- (617) 864-0665 |
- EFF, Cambridge | --Robert Frost
-