BBS anonymity policy
rishab at dxm.ernet.in
rishab at dxm.ernet.in
Thu Jun 2 19:48:34 PDT 1994
Pierre at eworld.com:
> I thought this might interest people... eWorld's "policy" on anonymity...
Commercial net providers or BBSes usually don't bother much about anonymity.
A user may want anonymity on a BBS for three reasons:
1. to avoid harassment, or avoid situations like Unicorn's where the
'outside world' gets to know your electronic views
2. to avoid being included in statistics - though most BBSes need statistics
for charging or whatever
3. to do something either illegal, or provocative to legal action, such as
tmp's. BBS providers are unlikely to condone or want to protect such
users.
A simple way to provide anonymity for (1) is used by a BBS I'm co-sysop of.
Everyone's identity is scrupulously recorded, for billing purposes. Users can
create any number of identities for the purposes of posting or receiving mail,
and no corelation between these pseudonyms and real ones is available to other
users. For administration purposes, all pseudonyms for real names are available
to sysops.
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