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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:34:39 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <1hij5fINNqr1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec26.190911.2170@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
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- I'm wincing about terms being used in this flame war.
- Anonymous != pseudonym
-
- Many authors use pseudonyms. To pluck one from my bookshelf, if Ed McBain
- were to start posting about oppressed smurfs in soc.culture.dwarf,
- he'd soon get flamed into a crisp, and would land in million kill files.
-
- But unless the Well decides to also let him randomly use the names of
- oh....Cordwinder Bird, and then Mark Twain, and then.....
-
- You get the idea. If he uses one name, and establishes a net-reputation
- to go with it, and sticks to it, how can it make an iota of difference
- that his name is really Evan Hunter?
-
- On the other hand, there ARE net-assholes, NOT on the WELL, who
- regularly change their text names, to defeat nn's kill files, I guess.
- As for them........
- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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