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From: "strick (henry strickland)" <strick@versant.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 12:39:24 +0800
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Subject: 121. Anonymity is important to Internet users who seek
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>From the CDA decision: ( http://www.vtw.org/speech/decision.html )
Anonymity
121. Anonymity is important to Internet users who seek
to access sensitive information, such as users of the Critical
Path AIDS Project's Web site, the users, particularly gay youth,
of Queer Resources Directory, and users of Stop Prisoner Rape
(SPR). Many members of SPR's mailing list have asked to remain
anonymous due to the stigma of prisoner rape.
Anonymous remailers are mentioned in this secction:
Obstacles to Age Verification on the Internet
90. There is no effective way to determine the
identity or the age of a user who is accessing material through
e-mail, mail exploders, newsgroups or chat rooms. An e-mail
address provides no authoritative information about the
addressee, who may use an e-mail "alias" or an anonymous
remailer. There is also no universal or reliable listing of e-
mail addresses and corresponding names or telephone numbers, and
any such listing would be or rapidly become incomplete. For
these reasons, there is no reliable way in many instances for a
sender to know if the e-mail recipient is an adult or a minor.
The difficulty of e-mail age verification is compounded for mail
exploders such as listservs, which automatically send information
to all e-mail addresses on a sender's list. Government expert
Dr. Olsen agreed that no current technology could give a speaker
assurance that only adults were listed in a particular mail
exploder's mailing list.
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