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On Mar 23, 10:33=A0am, "Wm..."  wrote: > Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:37:16 > <20110322203716.4c71b...@gododdin.internal.journeyman.cc> > uk.net.news.moderation Simon Brooke  > > > > >On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:36:30 +0000 > >"Wm..."  wrote: > > >> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:41:33 > >> <1jyjfg2.r58e6kbzxu8cN%%ste...@malloc.co.uk> uk.net.news.moderation > >> Steve Firth <%ste...@malloc.co.uk> > > >> >Geoff Berrow <blthe...@ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > > >> >> I'm sure a lot of > >> >> people have either given up on you or have you in their killfile. > > >> >Both. > > >> >And I find Wm to be creepy. > > >> why? =A0I am prepared to learn. > > >Your obsessive interest in aspects of peoples' identity and/or > >character, particularly in aspects of the identity and character of > >people who appear to be female, which have precisely nothing to do with > >how they post on Usenet. Your tendency to address people (again, > >especially people who appear to be female) in an inappropriately > >familiar fashion. > > Please help me here. =A0If someone says their name is ABC why is it rude > to use their name when responding to a message from them? =A0If, during > the course of correspondence, I find myself wondering "hang on, are you > who you say you are" why is that a bad thing?

Three people have told you in the last week that constantly using people's first names when you don't really know them other than on Usenet is overly familiar. Is that not enough for you? It's already apparent who you're addressing without needing to use their name. Using their name occasionally is one thing, but at the end of every other sentence: it's what one would expect if you knew them offline, or you had emailed them extensively and built up an online "relationship". That's the impression it gives, and in most cases at least, it's a false one.

Even when I'm talking to someone I know, I don't tend to use their name much...I might do when I say hello to them, or when I'm trying to impress an important point onto them, but that's about it.

It's not appropriate for you to do it anything like as much as you do. How many more people have to tell you that?

> >I'll add my name to the 'finds Wm... creepy' list. > > I thought you were a better person.

Heh, your friend Chapman tried that tactic the other day on URC when someone said that (you'll never believe this) he hated cars. It didn't work then either.