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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Numberman
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:35:38 +0200

On 17 Aug 2005, at 01:55, Kitty Antonik Wakfer wrote:

> On our MoreLife Yahoo group, we
> have recently put into effect the requirement that posters (as  
> opposed to simply
> lurking members) fully identify themselves to us (including picture  
> ID which we purge
> from our computer after satisfying ourselves that it is authentic)  
> and use their full
> names in their messages (in the header and/or following the text).  
> This new
> requirement has elicited considerable discussion from a few who do  
> not follow our
> explanations that information about a person is in the same  
> category of necessary
> assessment criteria as information about any product or service,  
> which is being made
> more and more widely available to everyone on the Internet in  
> response to their
> desires.

Anonymity, when used correctly, is crucial to range of social  
processes. Some examples are scientific publication and voting:

Stodolsky, D. S. (2002). Computer-network based democracy: Scientific  
communication as a basis for governance. Proceedings of the 3rd  
International Workshop on Knowledge Management in e-Government, 7,  
127-137.

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Stodolsky, D. S. (1995). Consensus Journals: Invitational journals  
based upon peer review. The Information Society, 11(4). [1994 version  
in N. P. Gleditsch, P. H. Enckell, & J. Burchardt (Eds.), Det  
videnskabelige tidsskrift (The scientific journal) (pp. 151-160).  
Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. (Tema NORD 1994: 574)]

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