Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:12:27 06/29/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 01:58:17, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 30, 2000 at 00:00:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>The issues that you are bringing up are currently being hashed out between the >>moderators. I will avoid discussing them until they're sorted out. > >Why should this issue be decided by the moderators alone? There haven't been a >decent poll for months. This could be a relevant issue and a guideline to the >men in dark suits, who are in charge of this forum. I don't know who does the polls, or how to suggest topics for that stuff or anything. But it would be interesting to have one. I'll try to look into it. >Changing the attitude towards an obviously fake name, wouldn't change that much, >since you can invent a "real" name without too much difficulty using various >free e-mail services. Hans wasn't smart enough to pull it off and too active too >soon. However, it would force the anonymous poster to use another name than Puff >the Magic Dragon, Karpov or Fritz. > >CCC shouldn't be governed by paranoia from a few members IMHO. I wonder if that >"Big brother is watching you and he's planning to do something horrible, or ask >someone else to do it" is more common in North America than in Europe. I don't know exactly what you're getting at with this comment, but the fact is that CCC has already been attacked by a massive number of fake-name accounts. It's not a hypothetical situation. I remember spending more than a few hours per day deleting messages and asking for IPs to be blocked. If this happened to you, I bet you would also be strongly in favor of the real-name policy. >A final thought. Are you completely sure that the "old" members gave you their >real name? I'm completely sure that some of them didn't. -Tom
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