8 Nov
2025
8 Nov
'25
9:49 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
I vaguely recall a rule on the mailing list, lightly enforced, that participants were expected to use their own real names. I believe the grounds for it was that this is a professional forum intended to facilitate discussion between professionals.
There is no such rule today, nor has there ever been one that I can ever remember.
Hi Tom, Then I must be thinking of a different mailing list. Nevertheless, while I agree that the words should matter more than the speaker, I think there's a degree of professionalism missing from anonymized messages and that matters too. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/