Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> dixit:
>On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:20:52 +1000, B Anderson <123@abc.net> brought
>down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>Someone explain WHY you insane people use your full names and real email 
>>addresses on the internet??

>Because we have the balls to put our names to our statements, and tend
>to more greatly respect those who do likewise, while discounting those
>who hide behind netnyms.

Hear, hear! Well put.

I've been using a real name on Usenet for almost all of the 17
years I've been playing. My spam levels have to be seen to be believed
but hell, shit happens. SpamAssassin catches most of it and the 
great thing about having 4 or 5 legitimate former email addresses
(thanks to organizational changes within Monash U) is that I'll get
4 or 5 emails with subjects like: "URGETNE: contact Barristar Micheal Cache"
and I know I can confidently blow them away unread.

>And I hate going from place to place on the net and getting private
>messages from folks saying stuff like, "Hey, Mike! I recognized your
>name! I'm shitferbrains763 here but you know me as PoWeRtArD on
>blahblah.com and as ghghgh44444 on otherblah.com" Fuck 'em if they
>can't use a real name I can keep up with from place to place.

I love it when people email me and apologetically say they are 
changing their netnyms. Makes me feel every one of my 59.7 years.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学