the need to impersonate

[jbor]

millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> I post from millison at online-journalist.com.  Briefly last spring and summer
> I posted from nopynching at yahoo.com when I was working in another office in
> San Francisco, and I signed my posts with my name, Doug Millison.

Yes, but do you post to the list using other pseudonyms? Simple question. No
big deal. If you don't want to answer, that's fine too.

> As I said before, I suggest you worry about firming up your own identity
> instead of worrying about other people.  How many email accounts do you
> post from?  

One. 

I posted to the list as rj from one account and then I changed ISPs and
posted as jbor. I've never created a separate account, nor used a different
id.

> What about that little slothrop667 to slothrop668 exchange
> earlier today?  Was that, in fact, you and Malign?

No.

>If not, who was it?

I don't really care. I generally just delete stupid or incoherent posts. I
suppose I've been assuming that it's you. Is it you? I guess it isn't
important.

> Oh, you don't know?  Why don't you know? Or, are you just falsely claiming
> that you don't know?  If you don't post under other names, why is it that,
> over the years, a host of  anonymous jokers has chimed in to join your
> various attacks on Charles Hollander, Terrance, me, and others?  I'm
> certainly not the only person to note that you hide behind an anonymous
> email account:   Derek Maus, when you and kai were taunting him with
> anti-Semitic slurs a year ago, said the same.

I called Derek Maus by his surname. His posts to me contained a stream of
personal attacks. In the last of these posts he made the incorrect claim
that I had used his surname as a racial epithet. I just ignored his posts
from then on.

It was you who made the accusation that I used anti-Semitic slurs against
Derek in January this year, at which time many other listers told you that
you were in error. You have repeated that accusation three or four times
since. It is still false.

> Given the number of people you've insulted on Pynchon-L over the years, it
> comes as absolutely no surprise to me that there are anonymous emailers who
> trash you, sometimes savagely.    What goes around, comes around, as they
> say; you get what you give.

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