>doug can do whatever he wants with the list and the rest of us have
>to live with it, imo, but (speaking as a veteran community manager)
>if i were doug i would think hard before disallowing aliases.
I won't. Besides, how can I tell someone's "real" identity anyway. Gussie Fink-Nottle could subscribe as Stilton Cheeswright, and I'd never know. What I don't want is another Jan Carowan episode (though Rakesh Bhandari is always welcome back).
I've been away for the last couple of days so I'm a bit behind, but I hope this has all died down. It's been clear to anyone on this list that the list is archived. To complain two or three years after the fact about posts going out without the author's permission is an uncommonly long time, given other gaping barn door situations.
Doug