Anonymous vs false IDs
Matthew J Ghio
mg5n+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Nov 1 14:14:51 PST 1993
David Mandl <dmandl at lehman.com> wrote:
> If you use five different identities, why waste your money paying for
> five accounts, especially if some of them are used only infrequently?
>
> Why have a full UNIX account (like my account on PANIX, say) for
> an identity that won't need to do anything but send out a couple of
> email messages now and then?
Perhaps it would be better to set up a remailer where people could
create a pseudonymous accounts on it. If the remailer didn't have an
obvious "anon" name, most people probably wouldn't realize that it was a
remailer, and might think that it was a real site with real users.
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