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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 07:22:34 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- Summary: "Don't piss on the WELL..."
-
- (David Douthitt) writes:
- >spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >| >Oh, about 5000 have never said anything about the issue.
- >|
- >| This proves nothing.
- >
- >Case proven. When you don't like the facts, ignore them, eh Steve?
-
- David, you haven't been reading this thread very carefully;
- I have ignored no facts. I contacted the WELL admins who
- confirmed for me that the anonymity policy is quite restrictive,
- who told me that the reasons for requesting anonymity I
- supplied were not acceptable to them. (Much to their credit
- they do have a lot of respect for people who wish anonymity;
- but they've decided not to provide it as a service.)
-
- I'm satisfied that the above in fact describes the policy in
- question, which is all I've claimed on that point. I NEVER claimed
- that people are "complaining" about the WELL's policy,
- or that people can't get around it fairly easily. I do
- not understand why you feel I need to back up things I
- never asserted in the first place. You, like Godwin, are
- trying to twist things around for the sole purpose of provoking
- disagreement.
-
- A few contributors to this thread (and some email responses)
- indicate that there are those who share my concerns on
- this issue -- not in the sense of disagreeing with what
- the WELL is doing (none of us have much of a fight with that),
- but on the larger implications of this sort of practice on
- privacy issues. The fact that these individuals are not
- in the majority, and thus fail to overpower all of the netnoise,
- does not surprise me particularly.
-
- Steve
-