Re: [Goanet] "Nom de Plume" copacetic on Goanet?
GL responds: In our town the only people legally permitted to go under an assumed name are public offenders (criminals), including sex offenders, who are trying to start a new life. Of course these individuals are being closely monitored by the police. To me alias-users are individuals trying to pull a fast one on others and want to hide their identity. Regards, GL-- GL,I have no problems with public offenders being offered a second chance - after they have paid their debt to society. My problem is with those who assume false identities in order to offend society. Such scum have a thousand reasons for false ID's but they remain just that - scum. The real tragedy is when we point out such offenders and those supposedly in control do nothing about it - even when their stated policy is to have no false ID's. Mervyn
[Goanet] "Nom de Plume" copacetic on Goanet?
GL responds: In our town the only people legally permitted to go under an assumed name are public offenders (criminals), including sex offenders, who are trying to start a new life. Of course these individuals are being closely monitored by the police. To me alias-users are individuals trying to pull a fast one on others and want to hide their identity. Regards, GL ---From: Mervyn Lobo IMHO some of these are quite elegant, but they seem to have the advantage over those who use their given names. Google research: "But one of the most common reasons authors write under aliases is because their earlier works bombed". E DeSousa wrote: I guess the question is how many choose to post under pseudonyms...? So how many of your earlier works bombed?Mervyn
Re: [Goanet] "Nom de Plume" copacetic on Goanet?
On Monday, May 18, 2020, 01:16:06 p.m. CDT, E DeSousa wrote: I guess the question is how many choose to post under pseudonyms... IMHO some of these are quite elegant, but they seem to have the advantage over those who use their given names. Google research: "But one of the most common reasons authors write under aliases is because their earlier works bombed". - E. DeSouza, So how many of your earlier works bombed?Mervyn
[Goanet] "Nom de Plume" copacetic on Goanet?
I guess the question is how many choose to post under pseudonyms... IMHO some of these are quite elegant, but they seem to have the advantage over those who use their given names. Google research: "But one of the most common reasons authors write under aliases is because their earlier works bombed". - Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 20:15:26 + (UTC) From: Mervyn Lobo To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: Re: [Goanet] Who is this Joao? Message-ID: <371933423.364506.1589746526...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Saturday, May 16, 2020, 03:27:52 p.m. CDT, E DeSousa wrote: With so many posters on Goanet posting under assumed names? it would be good to understand why this is happening. Those writing under assumed names could volunteer to explain their personal reasons for doing so?? --- E. DeSouza, I find it strange that you think there are many posters on Goanet posting under assumed names.? The moderators have guaranteed us that this does not happen. Mervyn
