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From: tale@pawl5.pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Pseudonymous Postings
Keywords: mandatory
Message-ID: <367@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 88 05:35:31 GMT
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Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (Tale Laslingis)
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In article <4763@netsys.UUCP> wb8foz@netsys.UUCP (David Lesher) writes:
>I think the solution to the various attacks/forgories/etc is
>simple.
>Have netnews strip off all names and addresses. Thus nobody
>could attack another by name, nor would anyone have any reason
>to defend a position with reverse flamage.

Blech.  So now nobody has to stand up for anything they say, or those people
who elect to attach their names to things now get even more heavily/visciously
flamed by people who have an even greater anonymous profile.  
 
And didn't you realize that it puts a TREMENDOUS cramp in e-mailing?  
The e-mail generated by people reponding to USENET postings is FAR 
greater than the number of postings themselves.  

I hope you weren't serious about that idea.  It's hard to take it that way.

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