[Leica] OT - Jeff Jacoby Article - now using

[phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong)]

Brian Reid wrote:
> 
> Will you ever become wise enough to tell us your name?
> 
> > Thanks Jerry. I'm gaining in wisdom.
> >
> > Sam S


With all due respect Brian,  it takes much more than
a name to know the man, (and much, much more a woman,
if that is even possible   :-) )

As far as names go, is B.D. Colen any more telling
than Sam S ?  Unless the person is prominent enough
that Google tells us something more about him/her,
knowing Sam's name.  A while back, a poster signed 
with a genuine looking Korean name, only to be 
blasted by an ignorant LUGer that the name must
be a come-on.

I doubt that Sam's revealing his (her ?) name, even if 
it's real, will tell me anything I don't already know 
about Sam, and won't change my opinion of him.  [He 
and I had a rather unpleasant public exchange, after 
I called him a troll.  We subsequently took it off-line]

You may say that it is a matter of courtesy to use one's
real name, in which case I will respond that it will 
not make Sam any more courteous.  Sam (and others) 
already show their lack of courtesy.

As far as I am concerned, Sam can sign with any name 
he likes, as long as  it is not mine, and as long as he
does not sign with 2 different names, implying that it may
be two different people.  Whatever name he (and other people)
sign, I may not believe that it is their "real" names,
whatever that means.


- Phong

who still prefer GeeBee over Graham Battison.  :-)