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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (30882)	10/4/2001 2:48:24 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You're not using an alias in the sense he is giving unless you give a false name to AOL on your application for service. Or if you tell someone you've met online you are going to give them your name and give a false one. Until then all you've done is give "no" information. I don't announce my name to a crowd a concert though I might talk with some people. And I wouldn't give my last name unless I felt like getting to know the person after the concert. Why would anyone? If someone bugged me, they would be held responsible in that I would give no information to them. If that escalated, the person might be held responsible by security, who find out his name. Unless a false name is given to the server, you can be tracked if there is a legal reason to do so, or someone submits your screenname (not alias) to the server for hassassment or threats. I don't see how telling strangers my full name, or any name I don't choose to, has anything to do with maturity.