Tim: >> 'tis considered extremely bad etiquette to try un-anonymising someone. John Summerfield: > I've never heard that. Good grief, it's bloody obvious if you apply a tiny amount of thought to it. How stupid does one have to be to not realise that someone who doesn't identify themselves does not want to be identified? Try looking up general etiquette, then; never mind something specific to e-mail. You've been around long enough that you ought to know that sort of thing. > I'm more bothered by those who try to hide behind ridiculous pseudonyms. I do use my real name, just not all of it. E-mail addresses, the user account name part (left of the @ sign), are not names. Or should we call you "Debian"? Consider yourself privileged, Debby, ;-) that I let strangers refer to me by my first name, rather than sir, or mister in front of my surname. > It's true you cannot email me at this address any more, but it's done a > wonderful job on the spammers;-), and the name is actually the one my > parents gave me. > > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait Or is it "John Spambait"? (Comment not intended to be taken seriously.) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
