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Re: Just the facts, ma'am.
From: [email protected] (Jeff Kellem)
>
> On the cypherpunks mailing list, Strat wrote...
> > Rarely will you find a system administration staff more concerned with
> > your privacy that the guys at Digital Express Group. As I recall, the
> > set of username->real name mappings isn't even on machine readable media
> > on the system.
>
> Really? That's odd, especially for a unix box, which access.digex.com
> seems to be. And, as a matter of fact, it does seem to show "Robert
> Stratton" for the username of "strat". So, it seems they do maintain
> username to "real name" mappings (even if they allow the user to change
> the "real name" listed.
Digital Express doesn't require that the GECOS field of /etc/passwd contain
real names, although they obviously allow it. (Finger
[email protected] for my full name, as well as my PGP key :^)
I seem to remember that the new user signup script they use explicitly gives
you the option of signing up under a pseudonymn, although they'll check up on
you by phone if you do (and presumably write your name in the Big Book at that
point). I've seen quite a few public access Unix sites advertising
"anonymous" accounts lately, especially after Julf's server went down.
Joe