Subj : Re: "Packet Type 2 Compatible Formats" (Ex FSP-1040)
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Feb 13 2021 07:57 pm

-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Dan Clough <=-

WvV>> "Oli" are the first letters of his first name. So it's not
WvV>> exactly an alias. And when you have the Z2PNT list installed in
WvV>> Golded, you just have to press F10, when you have one of his
WvV>> messages open to find out his real name. So he isn't really
WvV>> posting anonymous, or trying to hide anything...

DC> Perhaps all true, but not really the point.

DC> What if one is NOT using Golded with that point list installed, like all
DC> of the people in Zone 1, for example?

WvV> Anyone can get the pointlist, and you don't need Golded to look
WvV> at it's content, it's just an ascii file, like any nodelist.

Understood, but again it's not really the point.  Persons posting to
Fidonet echos are supposed to be using real names.  Whether they're a
nodelisted Sysop, or a Point, or a normal user on a BBS, makes no
difference.  They're supposed to be using a real name.  Simple.



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