On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Mary Siegel wrote:

>At 2:58 AM -0700 8/4/00, rex wrote:
>>What I care about is content, not the "name" associated
>>with the address. I welcome posts from pseudonyms posted
>>through anonymous remailers. Anyone with the ability to
>>establish a pseudonym via a remailer chain is likely to
>>have something interesting to say. In contrast, the fact
>>that Dumb N. Dumber uses his meatspace name to post
>>doesn't interest me at all.
>
>I would disagree with that. The ability to establish a pseudonym has
>little to do with the ability to have something interesting to say. I
>would wound why they had something to hide.

The comment about this being a religious discussion seems all too apt.
It depends on the focus and purpose of the list in question.

I run two lists targeted to people whose lives have been turned upside
down by mental illness and by the treatment they've received as a
result, people who are very stigmatized by society.  Some of them have
very good reasons from their own experience for wanting to hide their
identity.

Both lists are subscription-by-owner, and when screening I focus on
whether the person has in fact had real personal experience with this
and not on whether they want to give me their real name.

I will add persons with a pseudonym if they want.  I don't allow
concealed subscriptions; I feel that at least their E-mail address
should be accessible to other subscribers through a REVIEW, but what
they share of their lives, and not their "real" identity in the
world, is the important thing on the list.

In your case, your reasons (which I've snipped) for not wanting
anonymous subscriptions on your list, with a different target
community, make sense to me.

I think your problem arises from people who are subbed to your list
without having their names "registered" in the database.  I don't
understand this process well enough to be able to help you.  The
distant memory of my own experience, which I didn't really understand
at the time, is that the first time you sub to a list on a particular
server your name is automatically registered, but not necessarily
thereafter.  I remember having to issue a "REGISTER" command to get my
own firstname/lastname working properly.  However I do not believe
that as a listowner you can issue a "REGISTER" command on behalf of a
subscriber.  I think the suggestion of deleting and readding the
subscribers is the best shot.

Dennis