CQ-Contest
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [CQ-Contest] Anonymous/pseudonymous posts

To: Joe Contester <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Anonymous/pseudonymous posts
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:50:14 -0500
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
Amusing ... there has been a lot of speculation off the reflector that, given your pseudonym, you probably were someone else.

Anyway, I stand by my point -- one shouldn't have to search for IP addresses to know the identity of someone who posts on a reflector. If you really didn't intend to obscure your identity, the From: line would have said W2EV, or you could have signed your messages.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 05:27 PM 11/30/2004, you wrote:

Hi Pete,
There is no ominous intent here. I'm Ev, W2EV. I'm attempting to segregate my email accounts by area of interest...nothing more. If anyone were so inclined, they could easily check the IP address of the emails in thier "trash" folder and match up an anonymous post with others already received. It's easy to do.


As long as folks engage in on-topic and non-attacking email threads, I don't see the harm in not IDing with every "transmission". :)

On a personal note, I've received so many emails with my name misspelled anyway, I'm not certain it really matters anyway.

Even so...there's no mystery here. It's me. :)


Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote: These postings from Joe Contester raise this point; should it not be standard practice that people posting to cq-contest sign either their call-signs or their real names?


Do you Yahoo!?
<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/virus/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail/static/protection.html>Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

_______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>