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- From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
- Subject: Re: legal question re anonymity online
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:54:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <19491@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- >Just turn your own example around which started this:
- >
- >You get into a disagreement with mickey_mouse@bell. MM threatens to
- >nail your cat to your door. You don't give it any mind (but you save
- >the msg.) You get home that night and there's your cat nailed to the
- >door. So you call Bell and say "hey, who is this mickey_mouse guy I
- >want to report him/her/it to the police...etc". And they say "damned
- >if we know, he's one of those anonymous users you sued us over not
- >having last year so we changed our policy."
- >
- >You don't find that analogous? I do.
- >
- >At the very least hanging ones' real name out there might temper one a
- >bit, and I believe that's basically what, um, Bell's policies are
- >claimed to be motivated by.
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- You've got it wrong.. BELL would have the name of annonymous users, otherwise
- how would they bill them? By annonymous people meant that BELL would put
- Mickey_Mouse@Bell on all messages from John_Smith@Bell..
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- Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca Land of the rising snow.
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