Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:46:41 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 12:23:51, Paul Richards wrote: >On June 07, 1999 at 09:12:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>An unpopular decision, but I think it is correct. I see _no_ reason for these >>anonymous accounts, even though many of them are quite normal people that post >>things that are perfectly acceptable. > >As I've said before my particular philosophy is to be as anonymous as >the medium, by which I mean that if I can't identify who reads the >group, they should not be able to identify me. Why should I post the >real email address that I pay my ISP for so that an idiot like Rolf >can come here and read it, then harass me at my real address?? That is a legit issue. And within 4 years, anonymous email accounts won't exist any longer anyway, because everyone will move to reverse-authentication before accepting email, to stop this silly nonsense in its tracks. Until then, we will have to suffer thru anonymous folks... most are perfectly good 'citizens' that cause no problems. But there are a few bad actors. And the bad actors are going to cause the house to be torn down, thankfully... > It >makes no sense. Everyone must be held to the same standard, and that >will NOT be the case if this is implemented. The participants of the >forum will be at the mercy of the anonymous lurkers. People do not >appreciate how easy it is to make someone's life miserable while the >attacker amuses himself in complete comfort and anonymity (BTW that >subscription to Pedophelia Monthly should arrive in your office shortly). ;) >IMO providing your real address in an open forum is simply foolhardy and >an invitation to harassment. I don't have the patience to deal with >online harassment and having to threaten people with legal action in the >"real world" just because someone doesn't like my opinion. Paranoid >you say? R.G.C.C was destroyed by people like this. If you want >everyone to post with their real email, then it should be impossible to >sign up to even READ the group with an anonymous account. I don't disagree at all. I would personally vote for such a proposal in an instant. If you want to be anonymous, you can read, but not write. If you want to write, you have to come out from under the rock where everyone can see you and where you can be held accountable for what you write. The only ones that will have problems with that are the ones that want to stay hidden, of course. But I won't object to simply adding hotmail.com to the hosts.deny file (among lots of others, of course, and I would do t-online.de if it were my host. :) )
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