[11342] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Mr. Anonymous, will you please step forward?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Mar 30 00:17:52 1994
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 17:18:20 -0500
From: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
nabil@world.net (Aaron Nabil) writes:
>Caveat: I've removed the CIX members *I* know of, and any >obvious end-users
>the Sprint is providing transit for.
Are you sure I'm actually using Sprint and didn't leave that as a red
herring? It was just an example. Why does it matter? I thought the quote
from the cartoon about "On the internet no one knows you are a dog" was
making a valid point. Why don't you respond to the substance of my
comments, does it matter who made them? If you knew my name, you wouldn't
recognize it and it wouldn't give you any other information which would
impact at all on the comments I've made. What difference does it make??
This forum should work the opposite of real world politics, issues should
matter not superficialities.
Why do you care which provider you think I might be coming through? Is it
because someone might think of cutting off routing and prove my concerns
valid? Even if you had actually managed to figure out who we are buying our
link from and get a list, how would you determine which provider out of N
it was, or then which person?
Lets deal with the issues. The only case in which identity matters in
this discussion is if someone is making authoritative comments representing
some ISP or CIX, or whatever, not in discussion of the issues. I know your
name, yet it means nothing to me in reality and doesn't impact on my view
of any statements you make. (Although perhaps it should, I don't know if
you have some connection with CIX or somthing).
