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- From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <8260@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:14:37 GMT
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- In article <1hb7v9INNm74@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu
- (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >one disadvantage is you can't be completely anonymous --
-
- Not even celebrities can do this (their postings still identify
- themselves, though as a pseudonym)
-
- >Not only can't you participate pseudonymously in WELL
- >conferences (which is not really a disadvantage of the WELL
- >because nobody can, except the exceptions) but your real name is
- >emitted to the free world by smtp.
-
- Well, this only happens if you try to send email to the free world.
-
- >(Other disadvantages I am told are a low limit on disk filespace,
- >and a slow connection out to the Internet, but those topics
- >are not germane to this newsgroup.)
-
- These perceptions are not true. There is no real limit on your disk
- space. You do get charged for excessive disk usage. You get the first
- half-a-megabyte free; each megabyte over that is charged 67 cents for
- each day you have it (and you can delete it the same day to avoid
- charges). This is reasonable for a system that supports more than 7500
- users.
-
- And the Internet connection really is not slow. For connecting from the
- Well in San Francisco to my system here in North Carolina, I got figures
- that are basically the same as vice versa:
-
- well% /usr/etc/ping neuro.duke.edu 10
- PING neuro.duke.edu: 56 data bytes 10 packets
- ...
- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 130/143/190
-
- and when I did the same thing from my machine here to the Well, I got
-
- neuro> ping -s well.sf.ca.us 56 10
- PING well.sf.ca.us: 56 data bytes
- ...
- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 133/157/227
-
- --
- ________________________________________________________________________
- | John jfw@neuro.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center |
- | Whitehead jfw@well.sf.ca.us Department of Neurobiology |
- |________________________________________ Durham, North Carolina ________|
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