Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:34:58 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 05:58:41, Harald Faber wrote: >On June 07, 1999 at 14:06:41, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>>I will make big efforts to no longer allow anonymous e-mail accounts here for a >>>new period. Also for existing accounts via hotmail etc. >>> >>>Only exception: if someone with this account wants to stay, he has to prove his >>>identity. > >>Nope. >>KarinsDad An example of someone anonymous who is a valued poster. >>Q.E.D. The thing which was to be demonstrated was shown. >Could you write some more words to make clear what you want to say? What I mean to say is as follows: Some people (for whatever reasons) want to remain anonymous. Classic examples are Komputer Korner and KarinsDad. (Hmmm... the 'K' connection). They are still valuable contributors. Some people don't care if their name becomes known. Most of them are valuable contributors, but once in a while we get whinging twits also who need to be cut loose. So the issue becomes, "Will we force people to reveal who they are?" I think that ICD may want to know and that is fine. However, it is not all that difficult to fake an identity -- even to hack a header. So how much time will be spent chasing around to find out who's really who? I think that it won't save any time compared to just squashing the new idiot accounts that pop up. If there is a concrete, reoccuring problem with a particular domain, then the whole domain could be dropped, along with appropriate letters of complaint sent to the ISP. But let's not cross that bridge before we come to it. >With proof for identity I meant that, if wished, only Steve gets the >information. KD in this case could stay anonymous for all other CCC members. How will he really know for sure, and what is the value if even the moderators do not know?
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