Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 10:21:21 05/05/98
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On May 05, 1998 at 12:31:58, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On May 05, 1998 at 09:54:33, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>I have heard suggestions that people must sign up under >>their actual names, but, in reality, if someone wishes to >>hide his identity, there is nothing that we can do except >>get rid of him if he abuses the rules of the club. >Right, but I think requiring it is still a good idea. I think anonymity >in a place like this is an awful thing, it is much more likely that >rather than encouraging people to speak more freely, that it would >encourage people to behave less well than they would if they had to live >with what they say. Yes, but there is no way to stop someone from using a made up name like "John Smith", for example, or something less obvious. I could have the signup script delay sending out passwords until a human had a chance to look at it, but this delay might be up to 12 hours or more if the person tries to sign up at night or on the weekend. And there still would be no way to catch a realistic fake name.
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