Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: [OT] "Netiquette" Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:50:24 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <5561974.lOV4Wx5bFT@PointedEars.de> <2966448.5fSG56mABF@PointedEars.de> <1898407.oMNUckLgyt@PointedEars.de> <179b15da-c93b-495e-a9c7-f6226682dedb@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net E32EFZvaJmSeyqaZEyZ71wJZggiSiwTdorPd40dHUJWSbWo1SO Cancel-Lock: sha1:pzILNDKU6j/p2bGh7rC8Jo0CcCI= In-Reply-To: <179b15da-c93b-495e-a9c7-f6226682dedb@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:38125 Julio Di Egidio: > On Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:47:15 UTC+1, Arno Welzel wrote: [...] >> No. It only means that a display name isn't sufficient to identify >> someone. > > That is why it's a real name and email address: the email address is > legally binding, at least in principle, there is a contract somewhere > some real person has signed for that service. There are many email providers where you can get a valid email address without any personal details. For example: > Now notice that Thomas was talking about attributions in the post, > while, of course, the email address belongs to the headers... Even the combination of a name and e-mail-address is not sufficient to identify a natural person. So the name of the sender in a post is just that: a name, nothing else. If this name is the real name of the sender or his nickname or a pseudonym does not really matter. In ever case the reader will see a name and an e-mail-address he can connect to a post. For this purpose *any* name is sufficient as long as the poster does not change it all the time. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de