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>[email protected] (Lefty) says,
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>lef> and then treats us to what he purports to be Mr. Nalbandian's phone number
>lef> and address.
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>lef> Whoever you are, nobody, you're a hypocrite and a coward.
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>Well, it wasn't me, but in any event I dispute this. The use of anonymous
>remailers does not make one a coward, any more than the use of a pseudonym
>does (or is your given name "Lefty")?
Certainly the use of an anonymous remailer in and of itself it doesn't make
one either a coward or a hypocrite. However, invading someone's privacy by
posting their telephone number and home address is a hypocritical act for
anyone who expects others to respect their own privacy. Moreover, doing so
anonymously is cowardly.
And, yes, my using my long-standing nickname, "Lefty", is _quite_ different
from posting anonymously. You can reply directly to me using my email
address, <[email protected]>, which appears in the header of everything I
post; moreover, I am responsible for what I post using that ID.
See it up there? You can easily determine who I am from that information.
<[email protected]> is, in effect, a True Name. <[email protected]> is
not. <[email protected]> is not.
>As for the privacy aspect, I believe it may serve the interests of those
>who desire privacy to point out privacy lapses. Not all the time, but
>sometimes you have to say, "the emperor has no clothes".
It is not the case that anybody "pointed out a privacy lapse" here. On the
contrary, someone _committed_ a privacy lapse by obtaining and posting Mr.
Nalbandian's phone number and address _specifically_ as an incitement for
people to harass him. This _is_ an invasion of privacy. Are you somehow
failing to see that?
>For example, would you object to this:
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>[email protected] = Eric Robison <[email protected]>
>[email protected] = Derek M. Harkins <[email protected]>
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>[email protected] = Joe Baptista <[email protected]>
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>The anonymous remailer is not so anonymous, is it? Should I have kept
>the information to myself, or am I right to publicize it?
What you have supplied represents an invasion of privacy as well, in my
opinion. If you were to explain how you came by this information, _that_
might be worth sharing, but simply presenting a mapping of anonyms to
truenyms is not.
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Lefty ([email protected])
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