[TriLUG] Re: Pseudonyms

[Dan Monjar]

--On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 03:05:49 PM -0400 Andrew Perrin 
<clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:

> 1.) The use of a pseudonym as opposed to an IRL (offline) name in posting;
> and
>
> 2.) The lack of accountability posed by a lack of history for a given
> online poster.

Very well put...it is not the name but the entity behind the name that 
matters.  If you had someone posting as 'Rain Forest Puppy' you might 
wonder about it, until you found the history of rfp and what he/she 
did/does.


--
Daniel Monjar
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