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From: booth@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: The need for anonymous postings
Message-ID: <2079@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 18:44:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 18:44:19 1984
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> From: bytebug@pertec.UUCP (roger long)
> 
> > From: ucla-cs!booth
> > Someone privately mentioned the need for anonymous postings to newsgroups.
> 
> Does anyone really agree that people have the right to post anonymously
> to the net?

No one should have the *right* to post anonymously, though there is a *need*
for anonymous postings.  Each anonymous posting should probably be sponsored
by some non-anonymous individual who (necessarily) knows the authors identity.

		-- David Booth
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