What has PEP 285 done to us?

[Aahz]

In article <slrnab9jff.1kn.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de>,
Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?=  <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:
>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.

In my other home newsgroup, there are people named piranha, Piglet,
songbird, and Pyanfar.  It's a little more unusual in technical
newsgroups, but pseudonyms are a fine netnews tradition that I'll fight
to keep, particularly given how frequently I've had trouble even after
changing my name legally.  It wasn't so many years ago that someone tried
to keep me from voting in a Usenet CFV despite my years of activity on
the Net.

Judge by a person's writing, not zir name.  I mean, heck, I'd stack Kent
Paul Dolan against any of the modern trolls -- using a real name doesn't
mean diddlysquat.

>> What the heck is a real name, anyway?
>
>In western contries, firstname + lastname.

You're wrong about that.  My full legal name is "Aahz", and I'm in the
USA.  Of course, there's also the Gandhi quote.

>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.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I'll post a disagreement
any time you mention it.
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