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Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:26:17 -0400
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>Nope, that's not a justification. If anyone needs to contact a specific
>list member off the list, he must necessarily *first* know that the other
>list member exists. The only way that this happens is if the other list
>member has posted to the list -- in which case, he has already voluntarily
>revealed his presence on the list, anyway. But on *most* lists, this
>represents only about 5 to maybe 20 percent of the subscribers. Thus, you
>are "revealing" the addresses of 80 to 95 percent of the subscribers who
>would otherwise be anonymous -- and some of those people might prefer to
>retain their anonymity.

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