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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Anonymous posts
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:26:25 -0400
References: <20070406.235300.2704.2717611@webmail06.lax.untd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070406.235300.2704.2717611@webmail06.lax.untd.com>


garymaher wrote:
> I personally do not see anything wrong with anonymous messages. With
> regard to the myfamily.com/LDS issue, an anonymous poster may very
> well be an employee of one or the other entity who cannot have his or
> her name associated with a contrary viewpoint. Of course, the poster
> may also be trying to manipulate readers with false information.
>
> I think the most important thing for us, as readers, is to assign
> appropriate weight to what we are reading, just as we do with
> genealogical evidence. If a poster wants to risk impairing his or her
> credibility with certain readers by remaining anonymous, so be it. It
> is up to us to consider the source.
>
> [Name withheld by request] ;-)
>

How can you withhold your name when it is part of your address?

bob gillis


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