In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hmm, I though he explained it: > > 1) Not using your real name. > > 2) A yahoo, aol, or hotmail address. > >In the ancient and hallowed (by net standards) history of Usenet, both >of these (particularly the first one) have been pretty good predictors >of crankness. The correlation isn't as high as it used to be, now that >hiding behind silly nicknames has apparently become socially acceptable >in other venues (web "forums" and "boards" and whatnot).
To use a Panix in-joke, how old are you, anyway? I've been on the Net for more than fifteen years, and while this canard about real names gets trotted out from time to time, it's quite clear that many many people have been active on the Net *and* taken seriously using names that aren't what you'd call a "real name". (People named "piglet", "tigger", and "pooh", just for example, who were active long before I showed up. Not to mention "piranha".) ObSheesh: Sheesh -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Don't listen to schmucks on USENET when making legal decisions. Hire yourself a competent schmuck." --USENET schmuck (aka Robert Kern) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
