Theft From Baggage-Continental

"Grumman-581" wrote in
news:gzK2e.121325$Ze3.94841@attbi_s51:

"Roger" wrote in message
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That name is aparently used by so many anomyous and disagreeable
posters it comes out as guilty by association even before people read
what is said.

Agreed... If you do a search on Google Groups for the posts by that
name, you get quite a few, but there has been significantly more because
they set the X-Archive to 'no'... No only are they to cowardly to say
what they say with something that might be traceable, they don't have
the balls to let it stay around in the archives for posterity... I
figure that if it was worth saying the first time, you shouldn't mind it
staying around forever...

I guess it would kind of be like someone who says they wear a white
sheet and hood because it is comfortable and it doesn't matter that the
only other people wearing that is the KKK... Sorry, but you're guilty by
association... I've encountered anonymous remailer individuals on other
newsgroups and they have always been trolls... There is no way that they
would have the balls to say what they say in person... That may be
different with the individual who is using it on this group, but I guess
I won't get a chance to find out because I killfile the domains of the
anonymous remailers regardless of whether I agree with the poster or
not...

It's possible that the person who is using the remailer on this
newsgroup is simply misguided... Since he has X-Archive set to 'no',
it's not like I could look back in the archives to see if he actually is
a reasonable (albeit misguided) person...

I know I'm relatively new to this group, mostly lurking and
having posted only a few times, but this sub-thread has really
caught my attention and would like to offer some observations.

For one thing, I know of some folks in other newsgroups that I
participate in that post anonymously and they are far from being
trolls. Why they chose to post anonymously is their own business.
But they are good contributors to those groups.

Besides, in my personal experience anyway, I encounter more trolls
that use real (or fake) email addresses than those who post
anonymously. Filtering anonymous remailers may nuke a few unwanted
messages but it may also nuke some good legit messages. What
about all the other trolls that don't use anonymous remailers?

I also can't help but notice there are more posts in this thread
complaining about anonymous posters, about ignoring them, and why
they are bad than there are actual anonymous posts.

Lastly, there are very legitimate uses of anonymous remailers and
mail-to-news gateways. I have used them on occasion myself.

Brian
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