Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:31 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 01:41 PM 3/23/05 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote about pseudonyms:

>& sometimes used to avoid legal issues, see Robert Silverberg's intro
>in Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties (go to Amazon [or
>whereever] and search for this 1932595058).

My favorite was "Cordwainer Byrd"...Harlan's revenge, sort of.

>& Ted did say "most", not all.

I'd like to see figures before I agree with that...particularly if you use
as a definition of "alias", "use of a name other than one's legal given
name" as that would include any use of "nicknames" too.  In that case,
"Mike" is an alias for me as my legal name is "Michael", not "Mike".

I would readily agree with "some" though.

-- Mike B.
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It takes a long time to understaFrom omni at omniphile.com  Wed Mar 23 14:51:27 2005
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:43:14 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Aliases
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:37 PM 3/23/05 -0600, samlubell at verizon.net wrote:

>So sometimes there's a very good reason for an alias.

Criminals have very good reasons for aliases too...just not socially
acceptable ones outside of their own sub-culture. ;-)

-- Mike B.

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