[CQ-Contest] Anonymous/pseudonymous posts

[Pete Smith]

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 at 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?
>
>
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