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echo: fidonews
to: Lee Lofaso
from: Tommi Koivula
date: 2019-07-25 09:20:00
subject: Real Names

 >>> From Lee Lofaso To Tommi Koivula
 > Hello Tommi,
 > LL>>> Former Z1C Janis Kracht had mentioned that it was
 > LL>>> okay for sysops and moderators to exempt themselves
 > LL>>> from this policy, as they were free to use whatever
 > LL>>> name they wanted to go by.  But other participants
 > LL>>> and lurkers were not free to do so, as policy didn't
 > LL>>> cover them at all.  In which case they had to use
 > LL>>> their real name in order to participate, or even
 > LL>>> just to lurk without posting messages.
 > >> But how a person in Fidonet can prove that his name is real? IMHO, I
 > >> can't do it even if I wanted to. ;-)
 > TK> You dont have to prove it, it is enough that you tell us so. ;)
 > I can only tell you a name somebody else has given me.
 > Does that count?

I believe in many countries that one is considered as "the real name". So it 
should be ok in fidonet too. :)

 > --Lee

--
 Tommi

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