On Dec 21, 2007, at 19:53, graywolf wrote: > I can no imagine why someone would use a name like Bob, or George, > or Tom.... > > "Hi, my name is Tom Rittenhouse, my friends call me Graywolf." >
Shouldn't that be Greywolf? > "Nice to meet you Mister Rittenhouse." > > Then they wonder why I don't consider them friends... when they have > all but > told me they weren't and didn't want to be. > Y'know, I've grown up knowing a large on-line community - from way back when when we all used 300 or 1200-baud modems to dial into bulletin boards. Even back in 1985 we were having gatherings where we'd get together and I couldn't call people by their "handles", "tags" or "aliases" comfortably. Frankly, I like addressing people by their real names - that's just one of my hangups. This was back when my online name was "random entry" (because I couldn't think of a username the first board I logged onto) and I still have people in town when I'm at a party who will call me "random". Hmmmm. Of course, if a person prefers to go by their alias, I can be trained to use it. But if no preference is expressed, I go for the REAL name. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
