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[Asrg] Anonymity

2003-03-29 16:25:36
At 15:00 29/03/03 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:30:10 +1100
Troy Rollo <asrg(_at_)troy(_dot_)rollo(_dot_)name> wrote:

> But of course I also consider anything that sacrifices the
> availability of anonymity in email to be a bad thing.

Please clarify.  Do you limit that to human identity, or both human and
network identity?

That would be human identity - network anonymity is (currently) problematic except in reasonably controlled situations (like anonymous relays, which can deal with the worst of the problems, but tend to be inconvenient for casual use).

Having said that, it may be that as things progress and it becomes more common for the network identity to be capable of being associated with the human identity, then this needs to be also capable of being treated anonymously, or at least of limiting the externally visible identity so that a person is identifiable only as somebody in a reasonably large group.
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Troy Rollo                              Chairman, CAUBE.AU
asrg(_at_)troy(_dot_)rollo(_dot_)name                   Executive Director, 
iCAUCE

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