requirement for use of your real name on this list?

[Hex Star]

On 2/15/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/15/07, Hacksaw <doug at stillhq.com> wrote:
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> > Hex Star - Well done for a quite amusing handle.
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> > On 2/14/07, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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> > > > I was wondering if we can estabish that you have to
> > > > use your real name here?
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> > > > "Hex Star" stands out like a sore thumb. Everyone else
> > > > on this list uses their real name, not a "handle".
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> > Your singling out of a member is not the least bit appreciated...if you
> > intended to send me a message by doing so you failed miserably...next
> > time
> > try communicating with me properly and politely offlist and perhaps we
> > can
> > get somewhere  ;-)
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> Hehe thanks ^_^...came back from when I was a real youngster and had to
> think up a username for a forum I was going to join...I was thinking hexstar
> because I've always wanted to be a good programmer and hex is partly what
> files are made of and star meaning...I'm great at hex/programming stuff and
> thus my handle :-)
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oh and in case you're wondering, the reason for my emails coming out as Hex
Star instead of hexstar is because gmail requires a first and last name so I
just split my handle in two...if it was just one big text field for first
and last name I would've put in hexstar but alas... :p :)