RE: anonymous postings

["Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>]

If the Daily News processes their letters to the editor in the same manner
as the Spokesman Review, they call up the letter writer to receive that
person's approval to publish that person's letter to the editor.  Although
this may serve to verify postings by V2020 subscribers, the time and effort
required to do this staggers the human imagination.

One good suggestion:  Require that all subscribers that post to the bulletin
board include their name, city, and state on all postings.  If a subscriber
fails to do this, he/she is removed from the list.

Just a suggestion,

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Johnson-Huhta [mailto:thuhta@moscow.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 1:49 PM
To: bill london
Cc: Stephen Cooke; Vision2020 Listserver List
Subject: Re: anonymous postings


Doesn't the Daily News verify letters to the editor?  Granted they sometimes
get suckered.  Am not so sure its an issue until the mud slinging starts.
And I think the list "owners" are responsible and need to enforce the rule.

Terry
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill london" <london@moscow.com>
To: "Terry Johnson-Huhta" <thuhta@moscow.com>
Cc: "Stephen Cooke" <scooke@uidaho.edu>; "Vision2020 Listserver List"
<vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: anonymous postings


>     Yes, one of the operative rules of Vision 2020 is that all subscribers
must
> sign in both their email address and full name when subscribing.  That
rule is
> obvious on the webpage where people sign up for subscriptions.  We did
that
> specifically to stop anonymous postings (it was a V2020 consensus decision
about
> 5 years ago).
>     Our dirty little secret is that we have never enforced that rule.
>     I can get a hotmail account under whatever name I choose, then
subscribe to
> V2020 with that email, and give a false name and nobody will stop me.
>     I am at a loss to know what to do about this.  Is it really an issue?
Isn't
> it obvious which posts are from people hiding their identities?  What can
we do
> about this, and more importantly, who is going to do it?
>     Any ideas?
>     BL
>
> Terry Johnson-Huhta wrote:
>
> > Mr. Cooke,
> >
> > Let me introduce myself---- I am Terry Johnson-Huhta and it is a
pleasure to
> > meet you Mr. Cooke
> >
> > Thank you for the biography, "Greg Brown".  My question is still not
> > answered concerning "Justice Now".  Most of us reveal our names when we
post
> > to this list.  I thought one of the rules of the list was to use our
"real"
> > name and not hide behind a psuedo name.  I have apparently
misunderstood.
> >
> > .Terry
>