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Re: [Gendispatch] all those people who commented on the NYT story

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 17 April 2021 01:01 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] all those people who commented on the NYT story
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It appears that Rob Sayre  <sayrer@gmail.com> said:
>The general idea to focus on is that the comments are anonymous. They could
>be mostly from the same person, for instance.

FWIW, NY Times comments are only semi-anonymous.  You have tp create an account
with a working e-mail address.  I recognize some of the frequent commenters from
pther places I've met them.  They're manually moderated to keep out the spam.

This doesn't mean they're representative of any group other than people who
like to comment on newspaper stories, but they are not just a bunch of trollbots.

I think, though, that the IETF should make up its own mind about what it wants to do.

R's,
John

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