[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

Wed Jun 21 21:01:20 UTC 2006

On 6/21/06, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/06/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In addition, a pseudonym is more anonymous than an IP address.
>
> It's also less anonymous though; wherever a pseudonym is used, we know
> it's the *same* people, where an anonymous IP address is used it could
> be anyone behind a NAT'd gateway.
>
True for some situations, but not for others.  In the case of a
throwaway account used to create one article (or edit once), that's
about as close to anonymous as you can get.