For anonymity. The person who posted it is likely an MIT Student/Alumnus/Faculty...

		wilfra on Jan 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT President on Aaron Swartz For anonymity. The person who posted it is likely an MIT Student/Alumnus/Faculty who received the email and others might not like them sharing it.

adoyle on Jan 13, 2013 | [–]

It went to the 'allmit' list (http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/allmit) which goes to "all current students (including incoming freshman and graduate students, special and cross-registered students) and all employees listed in the MIT directory or with SAP status=active" which is upwards of 22,000 people.

wilfra on Jan 13, 2013 | | [–]

Right and evidently whomever shared this did not want the other 21,999 people seeing that they had posted it to their blog. So they shared it anonymously.

kamkazemoose on Jan 13, 2013 | [–]

Either that, or they don't have a blog. Pastebin is an easy way to share an e-mail or some other text if you don't have some other method of publication easily available.