At 4/9/04 8:16 PM, Dave Warren wrote:
>> Right, because there's a pervasive belief -- since 98+% of the
>> population of the net wasn't around in the world's-an-open-book days
>> -- that privacy is a necessary prerequisite for being allowed to
>> supply services on the net, not something they ought to pay extra for.
>
>There are a lot of things you can't do and expect to maintain anonymity.
>You can't own property, run a business, or own a domain.
"Privacy" and "anonymity" are two completely separate things. "Privacy"
implies, to me, that only people who have a reasonable need to know your
personal information are likely to see it (which most people buying a
domain name probably feel is reasonable); "anonymity" implies that even
people who DO need to know it for valid reasons can't see it it (which
most people would probably agree is a bad thing).
Please don't claim that people who want "privacy" want "anonymity";
that's certainly not true in my case.
(Also, in my opinion, buying a domain name is really nothing at all like
buying property or starting a business.)
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin
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