Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:50:08 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Yeah, I've been Candy my entire life, but my legal name is Catherine
Anne.  Except for signing paperwork, I've never used it.

At 02:49 PM 3/23/2005, you wrote:
>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.
>--
>It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Candy

P.S. I don't have any pictures yet, but see my new web-site at
www.hourglass-creations.com