At 4/9/04 8:16 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >> Right, because there's a pervasive belief -- since 98+% of the >> population of the net wasn't around in the world's-an-open-book days >> -- that privacy is a necessary prerequisite for being allowed to >> supply services on the net, not something they ought to pay extra for. > >There are a lot of things you can't do and expect to maintain anonymity. >You can't own property, run a business, or own a domain.
"Privacy" and "anonymity" are two completely separate things. "Privacy" implies, to me, that only people who have a reasonable need to know your personal information are likely to see it (which most people buying a domain name probably feel is reasonable); "anonymity" implies that even people who DO need to know it for valid reasons can't see it it (which most people would probably agree is a bad thing). Please don't claim that people who want "privacy" want "anonymity"; that's certainly not true in my case. (Also, in my opinion, buying a domain name is really nothing at all like buying property or starting a business.) -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/ "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin
