RE: Subject: DG/ hotmail/juno accounts

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Williams, Chris (RSCH) wrote:

> Jeremy mistyped:
> 
> 	There ahve been several complaints about the fact that DG is not
> accepting
> 	Hotmail or juno subscriptions.....I think he has a good reason
> for doing
> 	this.....
> 
> OK; let's hear this one...

Because any idiot can get one of those accounts........if you email Zerxc
he will, in most cases, let you on.


> I respect your opinion, but you're dead wrong. You've uncritically
> accepted the idea that the Internet in general and these providers
> specifically permit people to create a new persona, masking their "true"
> selves. This argument is as old as the hills. It's the same one that
> some of Jane Austin's characters used (in Mansfield Park, I think)
> against actors and acting. The fear there, was that by play acting--by
> taking on another "identity"--you could express and experience things
> that would otherwise have been prohibited. Funny enough, today we call
> this "freedom". 
> 
> How is someone supposed to prove to Zerxes--the biggest Zep mailing list
> trouble maker--that they're not out to cause trouble? What's "trouble"
> anyway?

personallyt I feel that it is wrong to pose under an alias as someone
else.....that's all.....I think that that  is overstepping your
freedom....exactly why I was against the Hunter post, exactly why all
these people whining about how they can;t get on DG because they're using
an anonymous email program makes me sick, especially after they say how
they would never go there anyway. That's why he  has them currently
"banned" because freankly there are some people who are a little insecure
about what they want.


> Why? What's wrong with lurking under an alias? You seem to believe that
> the use of an alias all by itself denotes guilt. I, on the other hand,
> would prefer to think that someone is guilty only after they've done
> something wrong. Hey, I thought you were a mellow guy, why you comin'
> down so hard on people this way?

Well, frankly, I am a mello0w guy, but there are some things that get to
me, I am very gullible....and things such as alias email addresses have
fucked me over big time, I'd rather not go into it, it's somewhat my own
fault, but there are some things that just hit that nasty nerve in me.
That's all, as you said previously, we'll never agree on this issue, but
it's good to talk it out.