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From: wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.groups
Subject: Re: JJ's phone number
Message-ID: <4370@killer.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 05:52:13 GMT
References: <5954@cup.portal.com> <2877@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <6013@cup.portal.com> <1098@micomvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
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In article <1098@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
>>....  A pseudonym on Portal (such as JJ) is a convenience, not a way
>>to hide one's identity.

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

A great many universities and companies let people choose their own
username for their account, right?

A great many of these machines have the standard Berkeley utility
"chfn," right?

Sorry, pal. Portal ain't by no means the only place with pseudonyms.
-- 
Bill Wisner
..!{ames,att,decwrl,ihnp4,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!wisner