Because Barry's misrepresentation of what happened here in the past is so malicious, I changed my mind; I'm going to point out the many lies in these two paragraphs: (snip)
> So what do a few wonderful people on FFL do? They not > only start using his full name in posts here (thus making > them Google-able), they write occasional posts *POSING > AS HIM* and/or signing his name to what they wrote. > > Both Robin and Ravi (who Judy seems to have No Problem > With) did this, and continued to do it *after* Curtis asked > them not to. Ravi was thrown off the forum at one point > because of it. 1. Nobody wrote any posts posing as Curtis that used his last name. 2. Robin used his last name in a post one single time. Curtis asked him to delete and repost it without using his last name. Robin apologized and immediately did so. It had been a slip, unintentional, and he never did it again. 3. Ravi once quoted something from a newspaper that Curtis had told a reporter about TM; the reporter had introduced the quote using Curtis's last name. Ravi was not thrown off for that. He was thrown off for using somebody else's real name in a post. Other than that quote, Curtis's last name never appeared in a post from Ravi. 4. Other people had used Curtis's last name quite a few times before he decided in recent years that he'd rather they didn't. I used it as recently as 2007. Not only did Curtis not object to my using it, he made a big point of how "open" he was about his name--for the purpose of dumping on someone else who used a handle. Rick left a post in 2010 wishing him happy birthday and using his real last name. On alt.m.t, Curtis used his real name rather than a handle. IOW, Curtis's TM involvement is easily Googleable whether anyone has used his full name here since he said he preferred otherwise or not. And nobody has done so maliciously, contrary to Barry's claim. The malice is all his. Bottom line: Barry made up virtually everything in those two paragraphs hoping to convince Seraphita that his sharpest critics were bad people. If she reads this, she now knows one of the main reasons why he has such critics.
