-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 May 2003 11:16, Sven Burmeister wrote:
fsanta wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2003 16:48, Sven Burmeister wrote:
To get more anwers in this mailinglist I would put your real name when sending email, it's a matter of politness I guess. ;)
I didn't wish to be impolite. Are there any guidelines on this list as to what one can call oneself? I used my internet nic without thinking when I signed up in kmail. My real name is Steve Sheriff and I live in Alicante. Is that OK?
I personally do not have a problem with that, but a lot of people won't even read your email on this list, if they do not see your real name in the email. Just setup your email program with your real name so that the Sender states your name, e.g. Steve Sheriff <
Nobody forces you to do anything, but it is a question of ettiquette, i.e. good manners, some have them, many don't. It's up to you.
http://www.dhaller.de/linux/etiquette-e.html
Sven
This may hold true if it was a *closed* list, but since anyone and their grandma can get on this list, it still has the possibility of being a mistake. Putting ones real name has not been a part of any ettiquette that I know of, since I could put 'Joe Brown', and you'd never know the difference anyway. The same applies at a party or in a conversation with strangers, *especially* for women, a person (for example me) could say 'Joe Brown' when asked what my name is if I know I won't be absolutely needing to have that person know any different, and they'll never know the difference. The part of the 'real name' ettiquette thing is BS and just plain stupid in *most* cases. To fsanta, you do what you want, there was no need to listen to this, and if someone won't answer a question based on a pathetic rule like this, they've got other troubles they need to worry about besides being here answering questions. John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+xo/eH5oDXyLKXKQRAqucAJ4jj0U8noAxwGJcah7IWt23vp11BgCeJDEl 4QUxJW+orIjJGfW3XKvVAfA= =Vcj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----