[12600] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue May 24 03:07:12 1994
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:45:08 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: paul@vix.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <VIXIE.94May18231309@office.home.vix.com> (paul@vix.com)
>Phone numbers aren't permanent, are reassigned so are not unique through time,
>and are not anonymous so do not protect the personal privacy of their user.
Nothing is permanent, is it?
We can only judge permanence in terms of other schemes.
If you want anonymity there's nothing to stop you from getting a phone
number from telco just for this usage and don't plug a phone into it
(heck, ask them if you could please NOT even have it physically
installed.) In many areas that would cost you as little as $5/month
for the privilege, and generally not more than around $15 or so.
You could also make it unlisted but I think that would probably be
futile since you're using it as your domain name.
But who cares if someone gets a phone number for you that has no phone
attached to it? I assume that's anonymous enough.
-Barry Shein
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