Hallo Steve,
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:26:19 -0800 GMT (23.12.1999, 00:26 +0800 GMT),
Steve Lamb wrote:
SL> Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 8:12:54 AM, Thomas wrote:
>> The serial number of your email client is? What about your email
>> address? Should that be suppressed too? ;-)
[...]
SL> Are those addresses real or fictional? Are they me or not? The serial
SL> removes all doubt of at least which machine it came from, doesn't it?
If you send emails to people from different accounts, yes. How likely
is that? And if you send to someone from two of your accounts, don't
you want them to know that you are the same one-and-only?
I think that's that's as harmless as having multiple email accounts.
Another thing is the serial number of the Pentium-III. This can be
checked while you're web browsing (I was told), and that *is* an
invasion of privacy. Actually a reason for me not to stick with Intel.
I see it this way: when I send an email to someone, I want him to know
who I am anyway. Never mind my email client or its S/N. If I have a
reason to use my @ibm.net email address for mailing lists, the
@hinet.net for my office, or @gmx.ch for private messages, that
doesn't change my identity - the only way for anyone to know the S/N
is when I send him/her a mail. I don't have a scenario in my way of
life that would require me to hide my identity when sending a mail to
someone. To the contrary.
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