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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: do people's names get changed from being on a net?
Message-ID: <2101@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 14:53:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 14:53:12 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Aug-83 20:16:00 EDT
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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I would like to hear from other people who have had the name
by which they're commonly called changed as a result of their
login name.

Before 1976, my name to everyone was David. When I got my first
UNIX account at CSRG (U of Toronto), however, the name "david"
was being used by David Tilbrook, so I became "dave". As a
result, people around the lab *called* me Dave. I got used to
it, and now my name on computers (both login and supposedly
real name) is always "dave".

The result is a kind of split personality. No-one who knows me
from certain environments (family, social, law school, work at the
Law Society) would ever call me anything but David. And no-one
who knows me from CSRG or from the net would ever call me anything
but Dave.

Any other experiences out there?

Dave (see?) Sherman
Toronto
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