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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
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Subject: Re: JJ's phone number
Message-ID: <1113@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 22:07:39 GMT
References: <5954@cup.portal.com> <2877@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <6013@cup.portal.com> <1098@micomvax.UUCP> <4370@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
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In article <4370@killer.UUCP> wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
 >In article <1098@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:

Portal:
 >>> A pseudonym on Portal (such as JJ) is a convenience, not a way
 >>> to hide one's identity.

Ray Dunn:
 >> Huh?  Give me that again?  Other than being a convenient way to hide one's
 >>identity, what other sort of convenience is it?

Bill Wisner:
 >Sorry, pal. Portal ain't by no means the only place with pseudonyms.

Bill is indeed 100% correct, I know not why he apologizes!

It is also 100% a fact that I never suggested for a second that they were.
Aha!  Perhaps there lies the reason for the apology! (:-).

Read it again!  I only questioned, and still do, Portal's assertion that a
pseudonym is some sort of convenience *other* than to hide one's identity
(on *their* system, on *my* system, on *any* system!)

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Ray Dunn.                      |   UUCP: ..!{philabs, mnetor}!micomvax!ray
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