On 1:59 PM, Mathieu - wrote:
On 13 March 2011 20:05, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
Vladimir Prus wrote:
Personally, I would suggest to establish a policy that every single post to this mailing list be required to use person's "real name" in the "From" field. If we're supposed to have constructive technical discussion, it's reasonable to require that all participant be accountable for their words, which obviously requires using real names and not "handles" that can be changed every other day.
As for one's religious, political, and other preferences, there's a custom that you have four lines of signature entirely at your disposal.
I find this policy not really fair. Not really fair for people (like me) who try to stay as anonymous as possible on the (wild) Internet. I know that anonymity is something that can sound weird those days with all the facebooks and the twitters out there but, well, for some people it's really important that their identity isn't leaked on the wild.
Though I understand the tack against anonymity, even the Federalist Papers' authors (whom most Americans hold in high regard) wrote under pseudonyms. <http://www.ask.com/wiki/Federalist_Papers>