Author Unknown

[jbor]

I think that the larger difference is between the (usually) anonymous 
*trolls* who hide behind one or more personas and do so in order to slag off
intermittently against individuals, or with more general slurs and smugness
-- like "you and you and you are fuckwanks", or "it's the dominance and
submission scholarship usually in evidence", or "you're all out to
intimidate the rest of us and deserve to be banished forever" and so forth
-- and those who might (or might not) remain anonymous (even multiply so, I
guess) but who are actually legitimately here to participate in the
*discussion*, and as themselves. The overall quality of discussion must be
OK, or else why would *anybody* bother (and that includes the trolls).

But I agree that it's not anonymity per se which deserves rebuke, or which
alone distinguishes the trolls. And no doubt there are shades of grey
between the two types.

*Warlock* is a wonderful book, btw.

best


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>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Author Unknown
>Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001, 5:22 PM
>

> And a great favourite and a wonderful performer of all
> of us here, J. Arthur Rank on gong ...
>
> --- Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org> wrote:
>
>> What a team, beats Horace Bachelor and the Zebra Kid
>> by a mile.
>
> But this here's a good point.  I post from three
> different addresses, myself (and only as myself), but
> are we now to insist on name, rank and serial number
> here?  Some people don't wnat to be looked up in the
> phone book, dropped in on, or observed through windows
> from cars parked inconspicuoulsy or otherwise across
> the street, not to mention from behind shrubbery or
> from inside louvered closets ...
>
>> On the point of aliases there is a whale of a
>> difference between
>> pseudonymous posters (Charles Hollander posting
>> consistently as Dudious
>> Max) and anonymous posters whose realtime identities
>> are unknown
>> (slothrop666, big one u.s.w.). This difference is
>> regularly ignored in
>> arguments about this realm.
>
> Seems to me that there are people out there fighting
> for their, and your, right to online anonymity, and
> for good reason ...
>