V.Michael Smith vs Aural Innovations

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:58:01PM -0500, mike coleman typed out:
> *I am on a forum elswehere discussing nightshade and making one's own
> cigarettes, etc, and almost everyone there uses aliases....I find this
> bizarre, as I am used to you fine people, etc*
> *that list SURELY isn't comparable in size to this one...WHY ARE PEOPLE SO
> AFRAID to post their name????*

	I think this is partly a matter of fashion. I think both that 
these days, when you have to register with a forum on the web with some 
kind of username, it's kind of accepted that you post under that 
username because it appears on your posts. But even when I was just 
starting to use the web the idea of a `handle' that you used online 
rather than your real-name, like a CB radio handle, was there, and some 
people did. BOC-L is kind of older than that, and so are most of its 
users I guess. And then the kind of groups who roll their own drugs so 
often don't like to use their birth names anyway.

	The other thing of course is that if they're holding down 
supposedly-responsible jobs or expect to, they may not want it to be 
possible to Google them and come up with their name next to a `smoke 
your own St John's Wort' recipe... Just guesses though, yours,
								Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk