From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Mon Sep 17 08:20:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 17 Sep 2001 15:20:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 36468 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2001 12:39:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Sep 2001 12:39:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Sep 2001 12:39:31 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:17:16 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:47:33 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:47:14 +0100 To: xod , lojban Subject: RE: [lojban] META : Who is everyone (and what are they saying) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta xod: #un, 16 Sep 2001, Craig wrote: #> >Sorry. I'm xod! I think the only recourse is to ask, as you have. #> #> I figured it out from the fact that all the things attributed to "xod", = if I #> searched my inbox, turned out to be from "Invent Yourself" - where does = that #> name come from, anyway? # #It's good advice, don't you think? Maybe, but you clearly haven't finished the job, because yours remains a sh= adowy identity, at least to those of us who haven't met you!=20 [Mind you, nonshadowiness of net identities is an illusion, because on the = occasions when I've met net pals in the flesh it's been a big shock, and it= likewise is, when say, I discover Rob was born in 1983 (how is it physical= ly *possible* for someone to have been born so recently and not be a babe i= n arms!) or I see jimc's photo & find my mental picture was totally wrong. = And Nick, when he met me was surprised to find I wasn't quite the cantanker= ous old curmudgeonly git he'd supposed me to be -- for one thing, I was you= nger than he'd thought...] --And.