On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
The Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is conducting an on-line survey to learn more about the uses of anonymity and pseudonymity on the Internet. The survey, together with a series of focus group meetings and an invitational conference, is part of a project being funded by the National Science Foundation. The project will generate a set of criteria describing the contexts in which anonymous and pseudonymous communications are desirable, permissible, or undesirable, and a set of guidelines for the use of anonymous and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds like an attempt at furthering legislation to curtail our freedoms. I say stay the hell away from this. It smells of evil TLA's. =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian | "If you wanna touch the sky, you must |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder@sundernet.com| be prepared to die. And I hate cough |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ | syrup, don't you?" |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, | For with those which eternal lie, with |.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"| strange aeons, even death may die. |..... ======================== http://www.sundernet.com =========================