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Date: Sun 09-Sep-1991 00:59:19 From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: A Rose by Any Other Name (was A new low in personal flames?) In article <1991Sep8.183430.8779@leland.Stanford.EDU> mcarling@leland.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes: >In article <1991Sep8.163447.25309@macc.wisc.edu> >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: First things first: if you took that to be a personal flame, my sincere apologies. No flame was intended. As a point of reference, should the need arise, flames from me will refer to a person's likely descent from dogs or other domestic beasts, be liberally salted with Anglo-Saxon trieds-and-trues, and contain such-like disambiguators. Something like this, but stronger: It's the gored ox that bellows, asshole. (Just an example, nothing personal (toward anyone) intended.) >>In article <609@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com >>(Glenn Reid) writes: >>>Don't mind me, of course, but "M" isn't a name, either :-) >>>:-) >>If for whatever reason a proper first and last >>name (Mike if you prefer it to Michael, say) can't be in the >>personal name field or in the .signature file, then it's a >>useful bit of consideration for others to sign your postings >>with it. >I would venture a wager that I wrote my name more completely >than did either Glenn or Jess. It may be that neither of >them have middle names. Well, M (isn't that Bond's control?), you are an exception. I should have guessed, when you wrote me about misspelling Truman's name (I included a period after the S). While it may be that neither of us has a middle name, I was fairly careful, in the part you quote, to take into account that people like to be called what they like to be called. As I think you've probably demonstrated, people are *quite* sensitive about their own names. I have in fact three names, but I use two and I shorten the first one by one letter, in the firm belief that it's my call. >I only know that I do not. I happen to have a one letter >name, as did President Truman. And whether or not it is in >the sig, my full name is always in the name field. Noted, though let it also be noted that Truman had and used a first name, with a one-letter second name. >That is different from posting messages with the name >"Operator" in the name field. Poor Patrick (not his first name, by the way): posts while installing Mathematica and look what happens, a tempest in a teapot. There was a point, somewhere in all this. People who (barring mistakes and oversights) make it clear who they are in real life are performing a useful service to other people out in netland. Yes, that was it. <> Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an <> open one. -- Malcolm S. Forbes
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