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