the need to impersonate

[jbor]

millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> -Doug
> 
> rj/jbor/rjackson/?, , I can see that it's keeping you up nights, wondering
> which of the many anonymous emailers might be me -- counting those spaces
> after periods, etc.  Rest easy, I am not Barbara, I've managed to do just
> fine all these years posting as Doug Millison. I haven't had to shift from
> one email identity to another as you have done, nor have I had to resort to
> spawning a host of anonymous email accounts such as those that rather
> consistently chime in to support your side of the various arguments you and
> I have had.  Not that there's anything wrong with anonymity per se, I have
> had fruitful and fun discussions with quite a few anonymous P-listers over
> the years, but if I were you, I'd stop worrying about this and focus
> instead on firming up your own identity.

As I wrote, Doug, my email id was rj and then it was jbor. You've been
referring to me as "rj/jbor/rjackson/?" for several weeks now, implying that
I post to the list using pseudonyms. (Here's a hint: If you look carefully
you'll discover that those two email ids are made up of abbreviations of my
name, which you also know full well.)

I've also written that if something interesting or worthwhile is posted it
will get a response, whether it's a pseudonym or not. It seems to be your
obsession to ferret out and/or vilify anonymous posters, even when they
aren't anonymous, like David, Don, Paul etc.

Just to clarify: your answer to my question is "no", you don't post to the
list using a pseudonym or pseudonyms? I realise that you "haven't had to" do
it -- after all, it's pretty juvenile -- but what I asked is "do you"?

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