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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.231114.17085@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:11:14 GMT
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- In article <1h86l4INN4lo@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >Most access services are willing to let the _subscriber_
- >decide if a pseudonymous login is desirable, whereas
- >WELL puts its own criteria ahead of those of the subscriber.
- >This is, at least, an atypical way of approaching
- >fairly important privacy issue. I cannot for the life
- >of me imagine why so many people posting here have
- >a problem with the fact that I have a few misgivings
- >about this policy.
-
- No, actually it is a pretty typical way of approaching the
- issue -- more liberal than some systems, less so than others.
-
- I don't think anybody really cares one way or another about
- what you think of the policy. But you asked for folks opinions and
- they gave them to you. That's what USENET does.
-
- Personally, I don't know what your point is.
-
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