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Re: Ecash without a mint, or - making anonymous payments practical
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Sep 26 18:37:29 1999
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:13:05 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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amir.herzberg@il.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Anonymous says, (btw, I really wonder what's the point of having a technical
> discussion incognito... I hope this is not for a really good/bad reason such as
> you are living in some dark country),
Frankly, I'm somewhat surprised. There are several really obvious
reasons for having technical discussions anonymously:
a) You don't have to live with any embarassing mistakes you may make
b) If you are discouraged from having the discussion (e.g. by NDA,
contract, disapproving boss), you still can
c) You don't necessarily give away what your company is up to
d) Men in black 'copters find it harder to know who to spirit away :-)
But what most surprises me is that you think identity matters _at all_
in a technical discussion. Surely the discussion stands or falls on its
merit, and nothing else?
Now, if only I'd thought of a) before!
Cheers,
Ben.
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