From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: pseudo-names - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1748 Posted: Tue Mar 22 23:42:04 1983 Received: Thu Mar 24 08:37:07 1983 #R:houti:-23600:uicsl:4300006:000:486 uicsl!wombat Mar 22 12:37:00 1983 What's wrong with using the name that people have to use to send mail to me? It conveys more information than the use of the name my parents gave me (which, as a matter of fact, I DO hate, at least the first name) without my mailing address. What difference does it make to anyone what that name is? As the Bard said, "A rose, by any other name ...*" Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat accept no substitutes. look for the wombat label. * copyright, W. Shakespeare