Re: Question about list members masquerading as someone else

[Avri Doria <avri@acm.org>]

In some ways it might not matter if the person is masquerading.  If she or he is being disruptive and using personal invective, you probably have sufficient cause to warn and then restrict from the list.

I would not in any case make a public list accusation of pretended identity. Something like that would very hard to prove.  

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On måndag, sep 15, 2003, at 15:14 Asia/Seoul, pregen@egenconsulting.com wrote:

> I have a situation on my list where I am fairly sure someone has signed on with a fictitious name.  Not a problem really, lots of people do this.  However, in this case, this "new person" on the list is making comments defending a position and making comments like "you lie..." etc.  The real problem is this new person is defending the position that someone on the list can not get anyone else to agree to - and several of us are fairly sure that the "new person" is indeed the same person who had made the original position statement.
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> Has anyone else run into this on their list?  If so, how did you handle it?  You can't come out on the list and say "hm, Mr. so and so, are you really who you say your are or are you an alias for ....."  This one is tricky and this person is now really causing the list to turn into a ugly and nasty mess.  Before I do what I have planned, I wanted to poll the other chairs first.  Don't you just love this non-paying stress jobs....8-(
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