To: ALLEN PRUNTY -=> Quoting Allen Prunty to Singhals on 01-26-08 02:42 <=- > Be that as it may, if I get e-mail from "ghost45@spam.cop" > asking about someone in my genealogy database, he's not > getting an answer until/unless I figure out who he actually IS. > Cheryl AP> And this is from someone useing a handle as "SINGHALS" It happens to be her last name (I remember her from the golden olden days of the fidonet GENEALOGY echo). I suppose if I was posting from the Usenet side of things, my name would show up as "BACKUS" as that is the username part of my email address. AP> When I do genealogy research I always introduce myself and tell where AP> I am and where my family is from. AP> It's all a matter of how much and how comfortable you are in sharing AP> the information with people. And also a matter of how long one has been around and been sharing such. After a while, one figures that everyone already knows that bit... <G> ttyl neb ... to be Frank, I'd have to change my name... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Doc's Place BBS Fido Since 1991 docsplace.tzo.com (1:123/140) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85 * Derby City Online - Louisville, KY - telnet://derbycitybbs.com