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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.024228.20064@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:42:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.175816.9718@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
- >In <1992Dec22.170211.10292@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
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- >>I don't see how. "Special circumstances," as a practical matter,
- >>seems to mean that you have to want anonymity for something more than a
- >>whim.
- >
- >Who decides whether your reasons are whimsical or not?
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- WELL management. Is there an important issue here? I strongly believe
- the operators of a private system should have the autonomy to interpret
- their own membership policies, and the autonomy to decide with whom and
- how to enter into subscriber contracts. Do you disagree?
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- --Mike
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- Mike Godwin, |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
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- EFF, Cambridge | --Robert Frost
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