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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 00:21:00 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- In article <Leu9VB1w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
-
- >Huh? First you say the WELL policy is "acceptable," then you say you
- >have "a few misgivings about [it]" ... please make your position
- >CLEAR. Thank you!
-
- Okay, I'll try to clarify this.
-
- I find the policy "acceptable" because I believe that it
- is within the discretion of WELL adsministrators to do things
- in this fashion, and so far there haven't been a lot of
- complaints or problems associated with it.
-
- Therefore I "accept" it.
-
- However: I have misgivings over the fact that, even as part
- of a reasonable overall policy, it has been found necessary
- to make pseudonymity avaiable on selective basis, based
- on the administrator's criteria rather than those of
- the subscribers.
-
- My misgivings were somewhat lessened when I contacted the WELL
- admins, and they explained the policy with quite a bit of
- clarity. It *is* a quite restrictive policy, despite the
- quite inexplicable insistence of Mike Godwin on this
- thread to the contrary. Although Mike really should know better,
- he is completely off-base on this one.
-
- I will retract any previous insinuation I may have made about
- WELL not being entirely upfront about this issue. Their
- admin explained things very directly, and I'm sure they
- would be open to discussing it further with me or anybody
- else who is concerned.
-
- Steve
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