Peter wrote:

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This first meeting is a brief, relatively unstructured get-to-know-you affair, designed to identify those interested and start them talking to one another. [...] -- J. Bashinski Secretary, NymIP-RG

Does anyone besides me find irony in having a 'get-to-know-you' session for a group studying anonymity? Will they allow masked attendees?

I don't think anyone will be demanding government ID. Short of a ski mask though attendees might get to see what you look like. John did have some things in the organisation stuff about pseudonymous participation. If it's still in there you might find it here: http://nymip.sourceforge.net/ Yes it's still there: | Pseudonymity | | Members, whether core members or at-large members, may participate | under pseudonyms. Pseudonymous members need not disclose their "real" | names or other identifying information to RG officers or to any other | party. Pseudonymous members must, however, disclose their | organizational affiliations and potential commercial interests, in | sufficient detail to permit other members to reasonably assess the | potential for collusion or conflicts of interest. The level of detail | required in such disclosures shall be determined by the Chair, and | need not necessarily include the names of specific organizations in | all cases. No single person may hold multiple core memberships under | different identities. Although I'm not sure the restrictions are possible except for people who physically attend meetings, but I'd guess the intention is clear enough: allow pseudonymity, encourage pseudonymous people to disclose conflicts of interest.

Will the mailng list allow posts from anonymous remailers, or is it closed?

http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/nymip-res-group Says: | On November 25, 2000, Scott Bradner, NymIP-RG Chair, set the | moderation policy for this list as follows: | | I'd just as soon have the mailing list be open and moderate | it only if we start to get too much spam or wacko-ites.

Is there a website to allow anonymous reading?

Well you could always use freedom on the web archive :-) http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7558/0/ Adam