Mixed Agreement

After reading Postalcow's last article regaurding the existance of anonymity on the internet and the rights of those people who wish to retain that aspect of vagueness with the millions of people who are online at all hours of the day. Primarily, I want to say that I understand where Postalcow is coming from...generally...people have the right on the internet to reserve an aspect of anonymity when dealing with people or places with which they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with. However, on the other hand one must realize that the "right" of anonymity that most people reserve on the internet is never truely "fool-proof" and isn't ever totally secure.

On a completely different note, I understand the annoyance of spam in my e-mail box to the point where my browser can't load all the header file names. But after getting so frustrated with it and signing a different e-mail addy, I have been spam free for quite some time, and just a few minutes ago I asked myself why that was. The truth is that since I registered my new e-mail addresses, I've been particularly careful what I sign up for, what options I select as far as recieving e-mails, as well as checking privacy policies of those sites that I do sign up on. Spam is easily avoided if you are meticulous enough to at least reasearch what you sign up for or to whom you send e-mails to.

If all else fails, there's always the block option, and while it can be tedious to block 500 e-mail addys and then the next day still recieve 499 e-mails, its still very possible to minimize the amount of e-mail with which you have to deal with by using neat features such as spam blocking, filtering, or the good old' block option. Now given, with everything that I've said, there are still many istances on the internet where a person can sign up for something, view a bad website, or something like that, and get infected with ad-ware, spy-ware, or something of the like, and there's not much you can do...but there's almost NEVER "nothing" that you can do.

In closing, I'd like to re-itterate that I do agree with Postalcow's personal opinions on the existance of anonymity within the existance of the internet, though it is sometimes misused (in the case of spam, spyware or adware, etc.), it is never completely fool-proof if someone is meticulous and motivated enough to track someone down. Anonymity isn't ever in pure existance, and with that said...the whole concept of such isn't really debatable except, perhaps, with the point of spam or the misuse of the limited privacy one can attain.