requirement for use of your real name on this list?

[der Mouse]

> I was wondering if we can estabish that you have to use your real
> name here?

> "Hex Star" stands out like a sore thumb.  Everyone else on this list
> uses their real name, not a "handle".

Depending on what you mean by "real name", I may be a counterexample.
(I do use the realest name I have here, but many people mean an
ill-defined something else by the term, usually meaning in my case a
name I don't use online.)

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