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Subject: Re: Hans Gerber is suspended--thanks for your understanding

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 23:12:27 06/29/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 01:58:17, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 30, 2000 at 00:00:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>The issues that you are bringing up are currently being hashed out between the
>>moderators. I will avoid discussing them until they're sorted out.
>
>Why should this issue be decided by the moderators alone? There haven't been a
>decent poll for months. This could be a relevant issue and a guideline to the
>men in dark suits, who are in charge of this forum.

I don't know who does the polls, or how to suggest topics for that stuff or
anything. But it would be interesting to have one. I'll try to look into it.

>Changing the attitude towards an obviously fake name, wouldn't change that much,
>since you can invent a "real" name without too much difficulty using various
>free e-mail services. Hans wasn't smart enough to pull it off and too active too
>soon. However, it would force the anonymous poster to use another name than Puff
>the Magic Dragon, Karpov or Fritz.
>
>CCC shouldn't be governed by paranoia from a few members IMHO. I wonder if that
>"Big brother is watching you and he's planning to do something horrible, or ask
>someone else to do it" is more common in North America than in Europe.

I don't know exactly what you're getting at with this comment, but the fact is
that CCC has already been attacked by a massive number of fake-name accounts.
It's not a hypothetical situation. I remember spending more than a few hours per
day deleting messages and asking for IPs to be blocked. If this happened to you,
I bet you would also be strongly in favor of the real-name policy.

>A final thought. Are you completely sure that the "old" members gave you their
>real name?

I'm completely sure that some of them didn't.

-Tom



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