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From: yoda@ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Todd C. Williams [Jedi Knight])
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "pretend" names and aliases
Message-ID: <1735@ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 16:31:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 16:31:18 1986
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>	     I guess the question is, what is the importance, if any, of using
>	high-falutin' names ? Is the user in that much need of an ego-boost ?
>	My reaction would be to assume that the person would seem to be fairly
>	immature but maybe that's not so. Comments, anyone ?

I just want to say that my pseudonym and username are not my own choice, OK?

I am a guest on ittatc; My machine is dcdvaxb, but dcdvaxb does not receive

netnews...yet.  They gave me these silly names when they made my account...

							-Todd
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