What has PEP 285 done to us?

[Gerhard Häring]

Aahz wrote in comp.lang.python:
> In article <slrnab7hn9.4tj.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de>,
> Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?=  <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:
>>
>>Why would anybody care if you aren't man/woman enough to post with
>>your real name?
> 
> Because many people, respectable people, *do* post to Usenet without
> using their "real name".

Yes, there are such people, but they are rare. For one of those, there
come a hundred trolls, 1337 hax0rz and their like.

> What the heck is a real name, anyway?

In western contries, firstname + lastname.

IMO using your real name is polite and whatever you say is not worth
being said if you can't put your name under it.

Gerhard
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