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Roy M. Silvernail roy at rant-central.com
Tue Sep 27 10:07:36 PDT 2005


Quoting "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>:

> At 8:43 AM -0700 9/27/05, James A. Donald wrote:
> >In the long run, reliable pseudonymity will prove more
> >valuable than reliable anonymity.
>
> Amen. And, at the extreme end of the curve, perfect psedudonymity *is*
> perfect anonymity.
>
> "Character. I wouldn't buy anything from a man with no character if he
> offered me all the bonds in Christendom."
>    -- J. Pierpont Morgan, Testimony to Congress, 1913.
>
> Reputation is *everything* folks.

Damn good point.  Now that I think of it, all the classic examples of
"anonymous" publication were really pseudonymous.  (Publius, et al)
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