Posted by stjames on January 24, 2001, at 11:28:53
In reply to Re: Guinea pigs and their words--no copyright » stjames, posted by shellie on January 23, 2001, at 20:45:08
> To disagree with you James, the responsibility of anonymity is the ABSOLUTE responsiblity of the researcher.
> A name that may not be a real name, but may be a nickname, known to others. While, yes, the poster takes his/her changes with the chosen screen name on the internet in general, that does not take the responsiblity off the researcher to do all possible to protect the identity of his subjects. My guess is that if Dr. Bob writes again about PB (and I hope he will), he will never again use a screen name. ShellieJames here....
I was not talking about the research issue, just internet security and posting to the list in gereral. Since few of us has seen this article
any speculation on security issues is moot. It is
my understanding he just used first letters; this seems fine to me.James
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