Anonymity ...

[Dave Monroe]

Now here's something I don't quite understand here. 
How "anonymous" is someone when everybody knows (or
can find out easily enough by asking) who someone
posting under a pseudonym is?  Conversely, what kind
of guarantee is a seemingly "normal" name that one is
not dealing with someone posting under a pseudonym? 
And why does any of this matter?  In waht situations? 
In what situations currently gaining here?  Me, I like
to know that I'm at leat dealing with the SAME person
from post to post, but, even so ... well, it's almost
a nonissue in some cases here, continuities are
obvious, and admitted.  Me, i'm surprised anybody
actually believes the same person is always posting
under "my" name, but ...


--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This other anonymous lister wouldn't happen to be
> that ever(almost 
> exclusively)-P-list-mentioned scholar whom we just
> can't seem to get away 
> from, would it?
> 
> DM
> 
> >From: jbor For you to suddenly attack one lister
> for trying to assume 
> >another anonymous persona is hypocritical,
> especially considering the 
> >adulation you heap at another lister's feet even
> while he adopts the very 
> >same tactic!
> 
>
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