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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation,uk.rec.cycling Subject: What Name Should I Post Under? Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:13:57 +0100 Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100623-1, 23/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 2de93f10.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=i<7:l>To@]T0S;jB3NT[1Vnok4Z\b5Zf:eQXVREn<S9LLeaZ]ikAZAiIOoH^ X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2365 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:770901

People (including Chapman) kept saying "Guy Cuthbertson's your real name" and "You should put your real name to posts". So I start posting as "Guy Cuthbertson", and now different people are claiming that I'm a "made up person" (apparently I'm somehow taking the piss out of Chapman, even though he himself discovered that this was my name) and that I should post under my "real real name".

So it appears that it really is impossible to please all of the people all of the time. I could choose another name to post under, but presumably Tom Crispin et al would decide that that was made up as well. So Tom etc, what do *you* think my real name is? What name(s) could I choose which would be acceptable to you? Is there any name I can post under which will mean that no-one complains about it?

Oh, and this time, just for fun, we could assume that the usual "clever" and "original" responses from the usual suspects (e.g. "Why don't you post as 'Fuckface'?", "Why don't you just stop posting altogether?") have already been made, thus increasing the "signal-to- noise ratio" like those same people and their fellow clique members are always claiming they want to do (though of course in their case "signal" means agreeing with them and "noise" means daring to argue...like "troll", such words take on unique definitions when psycholists use them).