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- From: barbaraj@sacajawea.csc.ti.com (Heart Dancer)
- Subject: What's in a Name? (was: I need some advice -)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.154445.8924@csc.ti.com>
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- Reply-To: barbaraj
- Organization: Computer Science Lab, Texas Instruments
- References: <1993Jan19.062319.15302@fuug.fi> <1993Jan19.105314.523@newstand.syr.edu> <WVENABLE.93Jan20124536@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:44:45 GMT
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- In article <WVENABLE.93Jan20124536@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au>, wvenable@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables) writes:
- >> >>>>> "Margot" == <mprisco@lynx.cat.syr.edu> writes:
- >>
- >> Margot> ... So I guess what I'm suggesting is that we discourage the use
- >> Margot> of anonymous postings in this group by not responding. After all,
- >> Margot> this is a support group, not free advice and the support goes both
- >> Margot> ways...
- >>
- ....
-
- >> Yes. I agree with "discourage", though, rather than "disallow". I did
- >> respond to one of these anonymous posts also, but made it clear I was not
- >> at all comfortable in doing so. However another person in private email to
- >> me did point out some quite valid reasons persons might have for wanting to
- >> remain anonymous (like your name is "Eagleburger" or something... - only
- >> kidding!) so I think we should maintain our usual good manners in such
- >> cases. However in future I personally don't intend to respond in any way
- >> to anonymous posts, above all I suggest noone should reply by email to such
- >> a poster, (and I don't intend to say any more on the matter, either).
-
-
- C'mon guys, your "control issues" are showing. I don't see that
- "wvenable" or "mprisco" is much more revealing to the net at large
- than "an6780". Login names really tell very little about the person
- posting, and what they do tell has even less to do with the purpose of
- this newsgroup. Suppose someone with a login "chris" or "kim" or
- "robin" from some public access site posts to the net. How do I even
- know that your real names are Margot and Bill? Pseudonym accounts are
- pretty easy to set up.
-
- But does it matter? We know what we know of each other from what we
- post, and how we associate (over time) various postings with the login
- names.
-
- BJ
-