Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 17:34:10 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 17:40:11, Steven Schwartz wrote: >I understand the sense of frustration that pseudonyms create, but >there are certain facts that we should not overlook: > > 1) Aside from the 2 children that posted a series of >epithets and were never heard from again, only 4 people, to >the best of my recollection, have ever lost their CCC password >privilege. All four had "legitimate" email addresses and were >posting under their real names. > > 2) Probably one of our most "famous" members was someone who >posted under a pseudonym - Komputer Korner, and perhaps some of >our most "infamous" members posted under their real names. > > 3) I have not counted, but I would guess that we have over >1000 (about 15% of our total count) free email accounts listed as >CCC members. Despite this fact, the CCC runs without incident over >99% of the time. > > 4) We can close out all of the Hotmail and Yahoo accounts and >spend the rest of our time tracking down the thousands (and growing) >number of new freemail companies, but if someone wants to get a password >bad enough, he just needs to stay one step ahead of the curve. > > >At the sake of boring everyone to death... I draw an analogy to my >teaching days. When I first began to teach back in 1968, all the men >teachers wore ties and jackets. Some were respected by the students, >some were not. About two years into teaching I decided that I was >just not a tie and jacket fellow. I dared one day to show up without >a tie. There was no difference in the respect that I received. A >short time later I showed up without a jacket... again no change in the >students. When other teachers followed, I noticed the same phenomenon: >the teachers that had the student's respect in the ties and jacket >days still did, and the ones that did not, were still abused. > >Moral of the story... what you wear (including names and email addresses) >is not as important as who you are and what you say (and your >sincerity in saying it). > >- Steve (ICD/Your Move) I agree totally, took the words right out of my mouth, if I was smart enough to say them :-)
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