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At 12:20 AM 9/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On 12:32 AM 9/5/97 EDT, the following was submitted for
consideration by C:
>>On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:31:30 -0600 Dan Lester said:
>>I wouldn't feel comfortable speaking to a room full of people
wearing
>>black hoods.  And I feel the same way about posting to a list where
>>everyone is anonymous.
>
>"know your enemy" ???  Some things about the Internet in general
should be
>clearly understood up front by everyone that gets on it.

But what's the point? Okay, here's my real name: Fred Jones. Happy?
Does it make you all warm and cozy to know my name? Oops, sorry, it's
really Lisa Chase. NOW you can feel at ease, since you know my real
name. Or is that it? Maybe it's Charlie Sheen...

I'm Philo. I've been Philo on the 'net, and before that on Compuserve
for over five years. If you search dejanews on [log in to unmask],
you'll find the thousands of posts I've made. If you searched on my
"real name", you wouldn't find squat. So what's the point? Some guy
with the same name as I (and it's a rare name) died two years ago in
Maryland. If I told you my name, you could search, pull his obituary,
and accuse me of using a dead guy's name...

What's in a name, anyway?

Philo

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