Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: fido <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: anonymity


I really dislike the idea of anonymous posting. (As if, for starters, 
we're not already to some extent anonymous. As if our names mean anything 
outside the intermittent sequence of posts from our accounts. As if the 
sig/nature were stable in the first place.) I fail to see the point. And 
I find it scary: Rush Limbaugh is anonymous, Bob Dole is anonymous, and 
especially Timothy McVeigh is anonymous. Pat Robertson failed to name his 
sources, rendering anonymous both the text and the author of the vicious 
anti-Semitic conspiracy texts he plagiarized. I am really not into this 
anonymity bullshit. "Death of the author" does not mean anonymity, nor 
does it mean plagiarism.

-f

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