From: megazone@obsidian.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Names and identities
Date: 12 Oct 1992 03:54:04 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
NNTP-Posting-Host: obsidian.wpi.edu

In article <1992Oct12.011005.18204@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>I don't really care whether you use a fake name to post to a.s.h.
>However, it's my policy that if you chat with me by e-mail, you must
>(on your honor) use your real name.  Many people feel this way.

On my honor I would use megazone. I post with it, mail with it, sign my works 
with it, my friends all use it, my employees, and some of my Profs. Some of the
campus cops call me megazone. I'll be giving campus tours tommorrow morning,
guess how I'll introduce myself. 

Megazone is my REAL name, 90% or more of the people I talk to in any format
on a regular basis call me megazone or Zoner. At times I haven't answered to
my legal name since I hardly use it and it isn't normal anymore.

I have a few reasons why I haven't changed my name yet legally, mostly due to
the cost. But I am looking into getting a DBA (Doing Business As) ID which 
means I can get bank accounts, etc, under megazone. It is much cheaper and
easier to do. 

Hell, I already get mail as megazone, and do mail order, etc....

And just to make it easy, if you finger megazone@wpi you will find my name
as B Bikowicz... That's what I give out... If you were to meet me in personal
I would introduce myself as Zoner...

>Also, if you have so little conviction in what you say that you
>must use a fake name to post it, then why should anyone spare the
>time to read what you write?

It isn't a FAKE name, that is something you hide behind. I have been using 
MegaZone for over 3 years for everything, if you ask around on campus quite
a number of people will know who megazone is.

I am open and honest with my thoughts and creations. If otehr people don't 
want to read them due to the name I use, well, fine by me. I can't force them
to read my stuff.

I have strong personal reasons for distancing myself from my past. Nothing
especially bad to anyone but myself. When I came to college I made a decision
to change who I was and I chose a new name. I'm not that proud of my past. If
you read my poems that may be obvious.

Brian is who I used to be. Brian was a total dick. Brian wouldn't have any
part in most of what I do. Megazone is who I am now. I know it may sound 
silly or stupid. I really don't care about the world's opinion of me. I am
who I am. It's just an extra assist for me mentally.

>I'm sure that Elizabeth Kupfer is the real name.  Just do a 
>"finger kupfer@uiuc.edu".
>Actually, the full name is Elizabeth C. Kupfer.  So, how's it going?

Not always true. I know people who have one name on the account and another
version on their ids... Such as one of my roommates.

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