A pseudonym that I can give up at will and that can never afterwards be traced to me is equivalent to an anonym. I'm not suggesting that anonymity be outlawed, or that every merchant be required to reject anonymous or pseudonymous customers. All I'm suggesting is that "small" merchants MUST NOT be required to accept such customers. On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:38:29AM -0700, bear wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Barney Wolff wrote:
The trouble I have with this is that I'm not only a consumer, I'm also a merchant, selling my own professional services. And I just will not, ever, perform services for an anonymous client. That's my choice, and the gov't will take it away only when they can pry it from my cold dead fingers. :)
Are you one of those who makes no distinction between anonymity and pseudonymity? 'Cause I've been talking about pseudonymity, and all your answers have been talking about anonymity.
Bear
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