On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Steve Pacenka wrote:

> What I'd propose to do is publish a digest of most of the comments. The
> digest would present comments anonymously; this would require a few cases
> of light editing to remove the possibility that the writer's identity could
> be guessed.

Is that necessary? I'm not sure that I see why that should be done, unless
someone thought that the comments would be forever kept confidential.
Maybe we should consider asking some or all of the commenters whether it's
okay to quote them by name - we do have their addresses, don't we?

But if it must be done, in the interest of total honesty, I'd prefer that
all such edits be completely obvious after the fact. That is, if the
original comment said "As a sysadmin for Royal Dutch Shell since May of
1991, ...", the edited version should say something like "As a sysadmin
for [a large international company] since [the early 1990s], ...", rather
than, say, "As a sysadmin for several years, ...". Maybe you were going to
do that anyway.

In any case, I applaud the idea. Thanks for working on this!

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