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Pastimes : Net privacy, that is the question.
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (14)7/12/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: Poet  Read Replies (1) of 43
 
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On the issue of SI posters using aliases to preserve their anonymity, I've just e-mailed Bob (SI Admin) on that very topic. When I first began to post here, I was asking a poster on the Pfizer thread to tone what I considered his obnoxious personal attacks down a couple of notches. He responded by repeatedly using my full name in his succeeding posts, in a manner which I found taunting and a little threatening. My response has been to adopt an alias for use on the threads, while I use my real name in PMs. I continue to think this is a good idea, as evidenced by some of the leering posts on the Women in SI thread. Maybe I've overlooked the "View" feature, but the way some male posters have written about certain women there convinces me that their imaginations are on overdrive. And so I garner a little distance with an alias. How many others do the same (albeit for slightly different reasons?).
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