"anonymous agenda boy posting as " wrote in message . com...

I didn't think you would grasp (or maybe admit) the point, that the
use of something which looks like a real name does not make someone
un-anonymous on USENET.

The only thing which makes someone un-anonymous on USENET is being
personally known to the participants in the group or having enough
history/details to be internally consistant that (for example) yes,
this really is Dudley Henrique the Mustang fighter pilot/instructor
mentioned in several books and not some pretender assuming the name.

Picking a "real name" like "mturner" or "fsmith"? Doesn't do it.
And anyone who has been around USENET any length of time ought to
know it.

Watching someone who is essentially anonymous viciously attack others
as anonymous cowards is truly a game of pot, kettle, black.

I don't know if you can't see that, or simply won't, and I don't
really care. The point stands just the same.

(Snowbird) wrote
I could open up an internet account right now. I could call myself,
let's see, "tturner". I could make sure the account I open has a
newsserver which trace routes to an appropriate geographic region,
or doesn't include an nntp posting host.

You'll have to show me how to do that sometime.

Never done it.

AOL is pretty untraceable though, unless you know someone who works
there. You might ask Bill Phillips about that. Oh, wait, I forget;
we're not supposed to hold poor underdog Mr. Phillips past posts against
him, it's only OK if it's him or his buds holding a 5 year grudge against
someone else over a couple USENET posts or $20 or some beer.

Sorry, I forgot your agenda for a moment.

The information on at least two ways to do it is right on this
group, though. I just don't happen to care enough to spend $10
and 10 minutes on that game.

But that game can't be played by me right now

Yeah, right. Bzzt. It can be played by anyone with internet access.

Well, sorry to bust that bubble, Sydney, this wouldn't work for you,
babe, cuz your inexperience with the equipment would show up in your
posts.

Like I called you, "anonymous agenda boy". Quacks, feathers, duck.

You show it so clearly every time you respond to me.

At least, I would be to some people with an apparent depth and
breadth of naivete', hee hee!
Gimmee a break! Sheesh!

That's right sister, just me. M. Turner. Snowbird at snowbird isn't
very brave, but we all know who you a Ladypilot, Snowbird, Sydney.
Your style is unmistakable.

This is really, really, really funny. You think *I'm* Ladypilot?
Because "my style is unmistakeable"???? Bzzzzzzt! Wrong. But
thank you for playing.

You are just so cute! Insulting, but so funny! Almost as funny
as when you seemed to imply maybe I made that post about the pig
from a directway email address. I let that slide. I'll answer now.

For the record, I have signed every post I've made to USENET in
the last 4 years (maybe longer) with my name, Sydney.

The only other posting name I've used is Snowbird, and pretty much
all the regulars on the newsgroups I posted as knew it was me right
away. So I think I can rightly claim to have never posted anonymously.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is well, um, not as clever as they
believe themselves to be. Or maybe trusting information from someone
who isn't as clever as they believe themselves to be.

They could put an expert on it, and subpoena every ISP record in the
universe, and that's what it would show. Not because I don't know
how to do otherwise, but because that's not how I choose to spend
my time.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled agenda.

I'll probably let your follow-up slide too. It's just amusing to
post to you from time to time, because when you're not responding
to me or a couple others you manage a pretty good facade of being
a normal aviation joe just hangin' here shooting the breeze.

When you're responding to me, or a couple others though, you really
let your agenda show.

Toodle-oo, Anonymous Agenda Boy Posting as MTurner!

Cheers,
Sydney