Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:35:46 -0500 From: cryptik Subject: Re: Stinson’s mean post- Libel? Mark Stinson’s post defaming a Chatham County business borders on, if not libel. To warn people not to do business there is outright mean. He gives no details as to the offence committed against theContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:10 -0400 From: “John R Dykers Subject: anonymity Having written for a statewide publication under a pseudonym, I recognize the tradeoffs involved with signing our posts with our real names. The difference seems to be that an “argument” is intended to be “won” and aContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:35:59 -0400 From: cryptik Subject: Dear Chathamites on Anonymity Dear Karen Crowell: I fear that you have already decided your conclusions before hearing the information, and therefore are of a sufficiently closed mind that you cannot participate in a logical debate on the subject ofContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:45:46 -0400 From: tom sisk Subject: Anonimity If you don’t have the courage of your convictions sufficient to stand behind your words – unhidden by pseudonym – then I can only assume that you aren’t saying anything worth listening to, anyway. Especially if you postedContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:24:35 -0400 From: “John R Dykers” Subject: Karen Crowell post 27 Apr re anonymity And I agree with Karen Crowell partly – “hiding behind a pseudonym in order to be nasty” is what we are really trying to avoid on the Chatlist, but “nasty” weContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:16:49 -0400 From: John R Dykers Subject: Cryptic Post on Anonymity 27 Apr. I appreciated Cryptic’s conversational analysis and especially his notation of his consistent pseudonym. On point he might reconsider; “Text carries no intonation,” Actually, that is what good writing is, text that hasContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:21:40 -0400 From: chathammatters Subject: Anonymity There are many examples of anonymity in publication throughout history. Here are two famous examples from our founding fathers: Publius, a pseudonym representing the trio of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in the Federalist Papers. Silence Dogood,Continue Reading
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