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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.220621.2999@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:06:21 GMT
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- In article <1ham10INNdi5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an127@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Korac MacArthur) writes:
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- > My concern is the one that has been expressed about a general
- >attitude by private systems that some seem to have. I personally do not
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- My experience has been that many more private systems will let
- you have an anonymous acount than not.
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- >privacy. What about Jane User? Hubby can split with her, be working
- >accross town or state and still intimidate via email and IRC if need be
- >(currently a rare occurance, but more and more people are getting
- >nettable). If you say these are the situations where the WELL would let
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- This isn't as rare as you think.
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- >non-anonymous account? I would never get an account on a system with a
- >policy like the Well's. How do the well admins feel about livetime
- >connections to the internet where one party is anonymous and
- >uncontrolable by them? Thats the key word...control. I want
- >exclusive control over what I do, who knows about it and how I respond.
- >Censorship and penny-ante, ass-covering policies do not appeal to me. I
- >bet they don't appeal to joe.net.user either.
-
- Then you are probably a better candidate for Netcom, which
- does allow anonymous accounts.
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