Edited by author 07-27-2003 10:17 PM
"Until your ISP shuts your connection down because of all the spam coming from your node."

If a restauranteur finds his premises occupied by stake-out crews of anti-bank-robber-cops because a series of robberies are traced back to plans hatched his back-booth, is he at fault for failing to require that all his customers positively identify themselves and agree to having their conversations recorded?

Anonymity is a fundamental principle. It's worth standing up for. Anonymity-but-only-for-people-who-aren't-doing-bad-stuff doesn't exist -- if you require everyone who's "anonymous" to be identified and have their activities logged in case they do something bad and you take some heat, you've abandoned anonymity.