[87549] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Oct 2 12:09:40 1997
In-Reply-To: <199710012159.QAA20763@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:14:14 -0700
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 2:59 PM -0700 10/1/97, Jim Choate wrote:
>> From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
>> At 7:49 PM -0700 9/30/97, Jim Choate wrote:
>> >My original question still stands, why would I or any other party choose to
>> >use an anonymous remailer for anything other than the original 3 items I
>> >mentioned previously.
>
>> I have heard of people's posts being brought up in employment
>> interviews. A rational person might want to express controversial opinions
>> anonymously.
>
>And your point is? My personal opinions have nothing to do with my
>professional career and yours shouldn't either. I would love to have a
>company bring up my past posts, makes it easy to decide if I want to work
>there or not.
>
>If you want to work for such a company and you know their views and your
>views are in conflict then I would say you need a shrink not an anon.
>remailer.
You see my stand in the .sig below. (Hint, it is my "true name".)
However, I am willing to admit that others may see it differently and want
to use remailers.
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