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Subject: Re: Anonymity

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:45:39 01/22/99

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On January 22, 1999 at 08:08:07, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>On January 22, 1999 at 02:15:59, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 1999 at 15:16:37, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>Fake email address in what sense?  You can't get a password without having a
>>real email address, since the password is sent to the email address.
>
>I think Dan meant those Email accounts which you can get free from several
>public services (e.g. gmx, bigfoot, ...).
That is one issue.  It would not be a problem if the services were not abused to
allow hanky-panky.  But they are sometimes.  Another is that people can get an
account, then delete the email account used to get access and continue to post.
I have had emails bounce before, trying to send an email to the originator of a
message.



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