At 12:30 AM 5/22/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
Would you suspect that having more warning labels (before & after, not just in the headers) would help with any negative reputation thus generated?
Probably not. Does it really matter how many times I tell you "I'm not being a jerk" if everything I send you is in fact jerky? (FBI and "this is not an assault", anyone?) Pointing people at legitimate uses of anonymity, as various folks have suggested, is undoubtedly a good idea. Would anyone care to suggest a few newsgroups where the vast majority of anonymous posts have really good reasons for being so? In cases where there's been serious abuse of remailers that's been caught and dealt with, some PR on the part of remailer operators might go a long way toward helping things. "Yes, this person was doing loathsome things, but we put a stop to it [insert details here."
put into public view... I see no reason to give lawyers more of a privilege than religious/psychiatric individuals.
Ditto. Likewise, I liked the instance last year of a student applying for the mail logs of the local (state?) government. It is Good for rulers to feel the same weight of the rules they impose on others. -- Bruce Baugh bruce@aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce