At 10.35 2005.05.06 +0200, you wrote:
>ThePicMan [thepicman@infinito.it] wrote :
>
>
>> >I agree fully with this. I tend to think of people with obviously
>> >made up names as mere kids pretending to be "in"
>> 
>> You are insulting me and others with no reason.
>
>No reason ??
>
>Having a clear name in the mail header have nothing with
>anti-SPAM to do. Is there any other resonable reason to
>not disclosing the name on this kind of forum ?

Either you see a reason for it or not (it's not up to you,
it's up to the person that signs itself), it is perfectly
reasonable and "within the rules" of the mailinglist to not
sign with one's real name.

There are people using false, but perfectly sounding names.
Is it reasonable for you?

I think that in this mailinglist one should be judged only
by the contents of his posts, and the fact that he gives
you his or her name, his or her home address, his or her
private or job telephone number, is way too irrilevant to
be even discussed.

Calling "kid" someone that makes a choice that doesn't
break any mailinglist rule and whose reasons you simply
don't understand is gratuitously insulting him/her, IMHO.


>About a year ago someone with a made-up name made
>such a dumb post that he got another piclist'er shutoff
>from the list.

Again, who are you to judge what is dumb? Are you God?

Let away that you fail any logic with your assumption
that making a dumb post can cause someone's else to get
kicked off. It's plain illogical. If someone got kicked
off the list, there have certainly been good reasons to
do so. If someone else triggered that, then I consider
it just a service. It can't be anything else, otherwise
you've something big to complain against the moderators,
and nobody else.


>I'm not sure, but I don't think I have seen
>a single post from that member (at least not using the
>*same* made up name !) since then. Go figure...

Maybe he returned with another account? Any way, you've
seen that, instead I've seen the worst kind of people
making libellous affirmations on someone's real name,
because he was a dangerous competitor, and making night
calls to him to scare his family. This is just one example
of the abuse that some people can make of someone else's
real name. And this is one of many possible good reasons
to choose not to use the own real name.

Either I have personally good reasons or not to use a
pseudonym, I'm sure it is correct to use one, and I do!


>Regards,
>Jan-Erik.
>
>
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