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It is not anonymous because the op knows who the author is, the author knows who she is, as do almost 500 recipients of the list serve.[/quote]

The OP, author, and the 500 recipients of the list serv already knew who the author is, before the OP posted.  Not a single additional person learned who the author is as a result of OP's post.  Why is this so hard to understand?[/quote]

More importantly, the OP already broadcast her rant to the world. She wanted it out there. The OP just helped her get her message out.[/quote]

You people seem to be missing something.  When you post a message on a neighborhood list serve, you are not saying "now go ahead and sling insults at me anonymously."  You are trusting it will stay within the community, or that if people have a response, they will do it, with their name behind it, on the list serve.

Imagine this: put a post up on your local list serve about an issue that you're worrying about wrt your child.  Now imagine that you open up DCUM and see thousands of people discussing you, mocking you, etc.  If we show no respect for the spirit of a neighborhood list serve, no one will eventually speak up about anything, for fear of it going over to DCUM.  The content of the stupid pinecone message doesn't matter.  The point is that it's shitty to do to someone else.

this is why many neighborhood list serves have RULES that messages posted there are NOT MEANT TO BE FORWARDED.  [/quote]

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