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Subject: Re: Hans Gerber is suspended--thanks for your understanding

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 23:20:52 06/29/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 02:12:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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.

You misunderstood my comment. I meant to say, that it appears to me that North
Americans are more worried about people monitoring their actions, and therefore
believe that anonymity is the solution.

Generally, I'm against fake names, not for them, so I think we agree on that.

>I'm completely sure that some of them didn't.

Which is why _all_ should be scrutinized.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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