My official name is You May Call Me Big Fucking Edward, and was ehird before that.
On 2009-05-25, Sean Hunt <ride...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Sun, 24 May 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >>> I CFJ on: "The nickname 'Goethe' unambiguously identifies the player >>> who generally sends messages to the list from the address >>> 'ke...@u.washington.edu'." >> >> Sure it does. So does "Kerim" or "G." or maybe "G" at the moment. >> >> Using a nick (or in this case a nick for a nick) that a player >> selects for emself (when doing so is not a burden for the >> recordkeepor due to length or overfrequent switches) is simply a >> mark of respect, courtesy and politeness. You can choose >> whether it suits your purposes to use such manners when you play. > > My view is that Goethe is in fact what you selected for yourself, and > unless you express a serious desire not to be addressed by that name (I > do not believe that changing your nick to a series of random buzzwords > expresses a serious desire to be addressed by that name rather than > Goethe), I don't go wrong by addressing you by that name. > > If you seriously want me to address you by that name (likewise, if > Warrigal and ehird seriously wish to be addressed by Tom and Arnold, > respectively), then I will, though I will likely have to abbreviate the > longer names. > >> And coppro, I apologize for the earlier semi-pledge. If it >> suits your purposes, such as they are, to use a previous name >> for me, I'm happy to overlook it. I'll probably forget >> sometimes too. > > Hopefully I'm popular enough that I don't need your vote. :P > > -coppro >
