Letters to the Editor
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let's be honest here...
You always had to put in your email address to publish a letter, and there is nothing keeping people from creating a dozen differnt junk gmail accounts for their anonymous posting.
Sure we can track all the letters anonymous214356 have posted, but what differnce does that make?
I belive, that Salon probably had some personal qualms about selling our email to spammers before "registration" and now that we're official "customers" they can feel free to sell that information on to others.
Ahh well, could be worse, they could be charging.
Of course, personally I think the ease of letter writing was an advantage to Salon, and helped keep the eyeballs up. But we'll have to see.