On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Rich Salz wrote:
I think I misunderstood that question. I honestly don't know what we would lose. Maybe a sense of openness.
In the past -- at least, say, 2-3 years ago -- we had a couple of anonymous posters who made very worthwhile contributions. Haven't seen that recently. Also, it used to be in the spirit of crypto open source (cypherpunkcs, etc) to allow anon posting because of the whoele ethos thing.
I think there's a huge distinction to be made between disallowing anonymous posting and disallowing non-moderated posting by non-members. You can easily register a hotmail account or whatever and join the mailing list anonymously. In fact, anonymity has _nothing_ to do with whether you are a member of the mailing list or not.
Scott
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