Posted by When I FUSS - you'll KNOW it ! gary g (208.133.217.62) on October 10, 1999 at 00:09:26:
In Reply to: Shame on you, Gary! Use your name if you wanna fuss.... posted by Dave W on October 09, 1999 at 16:53:39:
no kidding
that's how we've been smoking out the real screwballs for quite a while now
in fact, if you go back a few months, you'll see some posts from me telling some folks how to figure that out,
when we had somebody submitting a series of messages using many different "normal" sounding names, to try to make a sales pitch through phony product recommendations
give me a LITTLE credit,
even if you think I'm a jerk
(hey, my dog still comes when he's called, so there's always hope) -
if I wanted to be SECRET,
I'd use one of my other email accounts
and since you feel like being picky picky -
SECRET, as in concealed identity,
IS different from:
anonymous
(not taking credit for the work, usually to let the words stand on their own, to avoid any author-associated reader prejudice about the content)
which is different from:
pseudonymous
(signing the work with a false name for any of many specific purposes - often the name relates to the nature of the message/work)
as far as FUSSIN' goes -
good lord, you must have been raised in a rose garden if that's your idea of makin a fuss
if I'm taking a shot at an individual, you'll see me sign it by name
if I'm raising an issue that I think is important, and might want somebody to email about it, or whatever, then you can be sure I'll sign it
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as far as the points you raised about the positive side of selfdiagnosis,
that's a moving target, and the shift has been toward the negative - in general- of late
but I didn't caption this post to address that, so we'll save it for a later entry
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