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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.050448.7271@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1haqotINNjdk@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec24.005022.4888@eff.org> <1hb6usINNm35@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:04:48 GMT
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- In article <1hb6usINNm35@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >Based on what the WELL has told me, your definition of
- >"serious" is so narrow that I would have to label it as
- >disrepectful of the propestive subscribers privacy interests.
-
- I don't recall defining "serious." But let me repeat this: everyone
- who has ever wanted an anonymous account has been able to get it,
- so far as I know.
-
- >It's quite another, in my view, for you to dismissively label
- >somebody's desire for privacy as "not serious". I am finding you more
- >and more offensive as this thread continues.
-
- Weren't you the guy complaining about Straw Man Arguments?
-
- >>Oh, about 5000 have never said anything about the issue.
- >
- >This proves nothing.
-
- It proves more than the single WELL user you've mentioned talking to.
- Could you please state a number for the number of WELL users you've talked
- to? Is there some reason you are avoiding saying the number?
-
- >>Because I know that those who want anonymity can get it.
- >
- >It's funny that you can "know" this, since unless WELL
- >changes its stated policy your statement above is completely
- >false.
-
- Really? How so?
-
- >I've tried to be careful to properly qualify those statements
- >where not all the facts are in evidence and an assumption
- >or guess is necessary. You should learn to do this yourself, BTW.
-
- I find this an ironic comment.
-
- >You may use the WELL, but you seem to have no desire to
- >present a factual description on this issue. Instead, your
- >whole thrust seems to be to declare that there's "not a
- >problem", no matter what evidence and considerations surface.
-
- What evidence of a problem has surfaced?
-
- >Thus,
- >even though you have more raw data at your disposal than
- >do I, your statements still come off as semi-uniformed.
-
- This seems unlikely. I suspect that I "come off" at least as
- informed about the WELL as you are. If not more so.
-
-
- --Mike
-
-
-
-
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