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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- In-Reply-To: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:06:20 GMT
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- In article <1hm9vqINNo3p@agate.berkeley.edu>, spp@zabriskie (Steve Pope) writes:
- >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.
-
- I don't think there's any reason to think that the vocal people
- flaming you are in any way representative of the newsgroup readers,
- though.
-
- This thread has just become one of the numerous ones in
- comp.org.eff.talk where the "dissident" is made the target of several
- straw man, ad hominem, distortions and other unpolite attacks which
- increase to the noise. Then, when the target of the attack tries to
- answer to them, he gets attacked for repeating stuff and wasting
- bandwidth.
-
- I don't know what's a good way to deal with these kinds of attacks.
- Just to ignore them and put the persons doing them into a killfile if
- they are a trend of the person's posting style, I guess. This however
- is problematic when the persons in question have something interesting
- or informative to say once in a while and/or are publishing
- interesting and informative stuff connected to their job.
-
- //Jyrki
-