I can certainly understand the reason for remaining anonymous if you work on sensitive information. However, by just admitting that you work on sensitive information, you have probably revealed more than you should have...;^). It certainly piques a lot more interest from other observers who are in the business of intel gathering than what a real first/last name would do...
Like others have pointed out, you can just use a first and last name alias that will satisfy the requirements that are being requested along with a generic email address like gmail or hotmail. This is certainly more effective than using a short abbreviated common first name. This is JMO from following this thread of discussion... -Shayne -----Original Message----- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of o...@celticblues.com Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:02 AM To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org Subject: Re: [osg-users] [forum] All Forum Users, PLEASE READ IT! Not trying to be argumentative here, but... I am not being dishonest about who I am... Ed. But that is all I wish to reveal for very good reasons. I think it is possible to communicate with others without them knowing your full name, or any part of your name. The communication is in the conversation, not in the name you tag on at the end. As for free support requiring users to jump through this hoop... Ok, your project your choice. But, how about a little more slack on this, considering you have a pretty large user base, all of whom seem to be more than willing to help test new features, deploy OSG into their systems, labs, etc, thereby propagating it throughout the community. I think it is a two-way street. Just my $0.02. Definitely Ed Quoting Robert Osfield <robert.osfi...@gmail.com>: > Hi ?? > > The key is that you adopt a consistent online personal that others can > relate it. Not adopting some form of human name is crap for everybody > else who interacts with you. > > At personal level I find it obnoxious that people are not always > honest about who they are, but that's me. I do realize that some may > wish to remain anonymous and sometimes there might even be actual > valid reasons for it, it doesn't make like this type of deceit, but it > does mean that I have to accept end users choice to remain anonymous. > While accepting anonymity doesn't mean a free pass to come up with > any combination of random key combinations for an online identity. > > Remember you are trying to communicate with real human beings, if you > want them to help you then you have to make the effort to communicate > in a form that is something that others can relate to. If you want > free support then this is the hurdle you need to jump for mailing > lists users and forum users - it really isn't much of hurdle, if you > want anonymity then all you need to do is come up with an name for > your alter ego and stick with this. > > Robert. > > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, <o...@celticblues.com> wrote: >> Does this apply to the mailing list or just the forum? I would like to >> object to this if it applies to the mailing list. I don't specify my full >> name for a very good reason. The type of work I am doing is >> proprietary/sensitive and don't want any questions I ask, even though I try >> to ask generic enough questions, to reveal what I am doing, or how I am >> doing it, and it be traceable to the company and my customer. It would not >> be a good thing for anyone on my side. If someone wants to try to track me >> down through my email, well, I can only do so much, with out considerable >> more effort, but I do what I can. >> >> Ed (or maybe, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Thomas, John, Freddy, or....) >> >> >> >> Quoting Art Tevs <arti_t...@yahoo.de>: >> >>> Hello dear forum users, >>> >>> in order to establish a nice etiquette in our community, we have decided >>> to suspend user accounts which do not correspond to forum's >>> rules. The main >>> reason is that a lot of forum users don't have valid real names specified. >>> The problem in that is, that your posts are also visible by the mailing >>> list members and that more or less blind kind of conversation isn't >>> appropriate for our community. Please take a look into this >>> thread, written >>> by Robert Osfield: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=2498 to >>> see what I mean!!! >>> >>> So, user accounts who's real names are either not full (by full we >>> understand First and Last name) or are of some cryptic nature (e.g. XMen, >>> 3D Master, etc) will be put into moderation queue by me in the next hours. >>> Messages posted by moderated/suspended accounts are not visible and also >>> not forwarded to the mailing list, until they get approved by moderatos. >>> Hence you still able to post, however until you do not correct >>> your profile >>> to match the forum rules (http://forum.openscenegraph.org/rules.php) your >>> messages will not be visible by other members of our community. >>> Hence if you like to join us, you are asked to follow the netiquette >>> established in many years of mailing list era. >>> >>> So again: >>> - you have to specify a valid real name in your profile. Valid real name >>> is of type "First Last" name, for example "John McCourkey", "Alice Smith", >>> etc... >>> - Names with more than 2 words are allowed, e.g. "Hans Peter Maier". >>> - If it is not appropriate to have such names in your culture or you >>> want to preserve some kind of anonymity, then please use a >>> pseudonym (which >>> match the both previous points!!!), however use it persistently >>> in all your >>> communications within our community. >>> - you can disable "Always show my realname" in your profile settings, >>> then your name wouldn't be visible on the forum and will also not be >>> indexed by Google etc when indexing the forum page! However it will still >>> be used in mails sent to the mailing list, so this is the same level of >>> anonymity as if you have used mailing list only >>> >>> >>> Thank you and sorry for such circumstances >>> Art >>> >>> P.S. Users who recieve an email with subject "Your account on >>> OpenSceneGraph Forum is now moderated/suspended" are landed on the >>> moderation queue. So they are asked to correct their profiles! >>> >>> ------------------ >>> Read this topic online here: >>> http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11678#11678 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osg-users mailing list >>> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >>> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osg-users mailing list >> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >> > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
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