From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 08:36:26 CST
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Seth Breidbart wrote:
> >>post without their real ID,
> >
> > This statement makes it painfully obvious that the problem is not
> > understood. What "real ID" is this ISP going to enforce?
>
> The one it assigned to the poster. E.g. Panix knows my "real ID" to
> be sethb@panix.com.
It may be that somewhere there is a pool of people who post with their
real spammable id on posts, but they sure are not my customers. I doubt
that users will use a service which insists on their real mail address, I
certainly will not run software which provides it, and I think the idea
that we should all be so trusting is not related to the real world.
To require a real id is naive, to even recommend it is unrealistic. I
can't believe the standard would be passed with this in place.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me