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- From: joelp@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (joel.peshkin)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Short, personal, annoying, space eating, time consuming messages
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214548.4779@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:45:48 GMT
- References: <722009561.F00031@remote.halcyon.com>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
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- Organization: AT&T
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- In article <722009561.F00031@remote.halcyon.com> Joe.Nicholson@f123.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Nicholson) writes:
- >And we're courteous enough to follow echo rules about posting full
- >names. We don't hide behind an alias.
-
- What's an alias?? The address is the actual account name and the path
- of machines to follow to get to that machine. Frequently we supplement
- that information with more "human readable" information about our identities,
- but all you have to do is "reply" to the message and the reply will reach
- the author.
-
- If FIDONET insisted on using the address as the identifier, there would be
- essentially no personal messages on this entire echo.
-
- -Joel Peshkin
-