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T206Collector...why I prefer to use T206Collector as my name. If you want to e-mail me, you can always click on the link and do so. Beyond that, why anyone would actually want to share their real names (or any other personal identifying information) on a cyberspace chatboard is beyond me. If computer whizzes want to find my ISP address and ping me to locate my general whereabouts, so be it. If you purchase my T206 cards (or I buy some of yours) from the B/S/T thread, we'll exchange shipping addresses. But beyond that, why anyone cares what my birth name is is beyond me.
I respect that many of you know each other and have off-computer communications and relationships, and nothing personal against any of you, but I would likely never want to meet up with any one of you (unless we're exchanging some rare and valuable baseball cards), and I certainly won't be posting photos of myself or my kid or my dog on here anytime soon. It's an on-line forum to discuss baseball cards. If anything more formal than a nickname is required to participate in such an endeavor, then the whole thing is being taken way to seriously (and personally). I recommend everyone use pseudonyms in the future -- it cuts down on taking things so personally, and would definitely not lead to these kinds of threads where everyone who has "outed" himself wants to know the names of everyone lying in the shadows. Respectfully, I reject the invitation of those who decided to leave the comfort of anonymity to join them in broad daylight.
Relatively anonymous,
T206Collector
05-16-2005, 11:35 AM
Anonymity- should it be allowed ?
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