David Barak wrote:
--- Cat Okita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David Barak wrote:
I don't think the corner cases (people who get stalked, people who only have
one name, etc) invalidate the general value of requiring that
postings to a list ostensibly devoted to professional matters be associated
with one's name.
I think the corner cases (and preserving privacy and
separation) are
decidedly important - but it's easy to claim they're
irrelevant if you
don't happen to be one of them...
Corner cases are the ones which should be solved by
working out case-by-case solutions.
The solution worked out may have been satisfactory to you, but was
decidedly painful and difficult for me. I came to my own solution, and
have lived within it. Had I still been working, or otherwise continued
to be in a situation where it was necessary, I'd probably have
subscribed as something innocuous, via gmail. Still, as Cat said, it's a
lot easier to claim they're irrelevant if you're not in that position.
Of course, I could be missing something...
To : David Barak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Perhaps I'm missing something here ;> Is that your
professional email
address? *grin*
That's what I am describing: attach a real name to a
handle (much the way Etaoin Shrdlu did).
Oh, but that isn't why I did that. That change was just made today,
about 6 or 7 hours ago. The original agreement had been that, for nanog,
I'd put my real name in the signature, and, had I felt compelled to post
to nanog, I'd have done so. However.
*My* solution for NANOG was to just quit posting, and I did. You have
absolutely not seen a post from me since. I was assured that I did not
need to make that effort here, since this is, after all, a
meta-discussion of the mailing list, and so I've continued to post here.
I continue to disagree with the policy, but am abiding by it.
--
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
