Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

 --- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote: > Padraic
Brown writes:
>  > --- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > Note also the high rate of Real Names in use, as
>  > opposed to obvious Internet nicknames. I think I
>  > would assign a much higher certainty than you
>  > would in this matter!
>  >
>
> Oh, I'd assign a higher certainty than in other
> places on the
> Internet - just a good deal lower than a lot of the
> other facts that
> make up my world.
>
> As far as the real names go - the names in the
> headers are provided by
> the email clients of the sender, not by their
> registration with the
> list.  Generally speaking we'll see whatever name
> they normally supply
> for that account (there may be mail clients which
> provide automatic
> name alteration by destination address, but I doubt
> this feature is
> much used).  So of course, this does provide extra
> reason to believe
> that people are representing themselves accurately.
> But it's not
> difficult to set up a webmail account, or another
> address on an ISP
> account, if you want to maintain a secret identity.

... or if you want to be able to divide your email
reading between conlang and, say, normal personal
emails. that said, mine's hardly a secret identity as
my other email addresses also use bnathyuw . . .

bn

( real name matthew for sake of transparency to those
not already aware )

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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