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To: Tom Swift who wrote (7894)	6/4/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

I've got nothing against anonymous posts, I just wouldn't rely on them for investment advice. Especially if they purported to supply otherwise unverifiable insider information. OT--Esther Dyson talks about "persistent identity." The idea is that an Internet persona can be judged on its previous actions/posts whether the actual identity of the person is known or not. If "Tom Swift" has behaved credibly in the past, then I don't need to know whether "he" is a trader at a top Wall Street firm or a little old lady in Kansas in order to judge any particular statement. Katherine