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- From: idg39@jester.usask.ca (Inez Gowsell)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: What's in a Name? (was: I need some advice -)
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:59:36 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- Message-ID: <1jvvk8INNm6a@access.usask.ca>
- References: <1993Jan23.154445.8924@csc.ti.com>
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- Heart Dancer (barbaraj@sacajawea.csc.ti.com) wrote:
-
- : <<Margot and Bill's comments deleted>>>
-
- : C'mon guys, your "control issues" are showing. I don't see that
- : "wvenable" or "mprisco" is much more revealing to the net at large
- : than "an6780". Login names really tell very little about the person
- : posting, and what they do tell has even less to do with the purpose of
- : this newsgroup. Suppose someone with a login "chris" or "kim" or
- : "robin" from some public access site posts to the net. How do I even
- : know that your real names are Margot and Bill? Pseudonym accounts are
- : pretty easy to set up.
- :
-
- You bring up a very good point regarding login names. However, most accounts
- also include the person's real name along with where they are from (mine for
- example says "Inez Gowsell at University of Saskatchewan"), so that gives
- an indication of the person's name, unless of course they change their name
- (mine said "We're Finished!!!! at University of Saskatchewan" for a few
- days after completing a major group project :-)
-
- Where they work is unimportant, but I think it is nice to know who you are
- talking to. Also, as Bill or someone pointed out, the name may not be
- important as knowing what sex, age ... or something else, sorry, didn't
- reread the comments.... but these factors help people give useful advice.
-
- : But does it matter? We know what we know of each other from what we
- : post, and how we associate (over time) various postings with the login
- : names.
-
- Yes, we know people by their posts, but it is hard to be encouraging,
- in the group or in email, when you don't have a person's name.
- "Hang in there, anonymous. I know it's tough, but you have made a start"
- isn't quite the same as "Hang in there, Fred" or Jane, or any other name.
- In email it might be encouraging, because it would get to the poster, but
- if there is more than one anonymous on the group, how do they know that
- the message is for them, especially if more than one has the same type
- of concerns?
-
- Enough of this. It is getting totally out of control.
-
- If people wish to use anonymous postings, they will. IMHO, it would be
- *very* helpful if they gave as many facts as possible to get the advice
- they desire (of course, this goes for anyone requesting advice.)
-
- Whoops, I am getting too preachy. That's it. System shut down due to
- user error - user must get her beauty sleep (that will take a while :-)
- before continuing this post, lest she severely offend someone.
-
- that's my $0.04 cents worth folks!!!!
-
- Inez
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- | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | Just what I'm going through |
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