From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   VanguardLH  wrote:   
   > Maria Sophia  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > > If you have no understanding of privacy, ...   
   >   
   > Don't participate in Usenet if you are extremely paranoid regarding your   
   > privacy.  Establish a Usnet identity.  That does NOT mandate you divulge   
   > your personal identity.  You think my parents name me VanguardLH?   
      
     Exactly! With a fixed nym, one can have perfect privacy. And 'even'   
   someone like me, with a rather uncommon last name, can have perfect   
   privacy if (s)he so chooses.   
      
     I think our resident paranoid [1] would be very hard pressed to come   
   up with any private information about me (other than the country I live   
   in, that I'm married and have kids, exactly the same information as we   
   have about him (and his age)).   
      
   > So, every year, we have to update our nymshifter filters to account for   
   > your repeated nymshifting.  And that is after we start to recognize your   
   > content as typical of your prior nyms.   
      
     Not just every year, but also during the year. As I wrote, during the   
   last year, he nym/address-shifted at least six more times.   
      
   > So, how many nyms have you used, so far?   
      
     About 110, of which about 75 in the last five and a half years.   
      
   >					    What was your prior one?  How   
   > many have you used in the last year?  Over all years you've been   
   > nymshifting?  If you are indeed not hiding then you won't mind divulging   
   > your prior nyms.   
      
   [1] 'paranoid' is too mild, it's grandstanding, ego stroking, etc., etc.   
   ad infinitum.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)