and yeah what is it with you guys hiding behind the some fictitious names, are you afraid that someone is going to catch you if you say something, come on! this is a public forum and it is ok for your opinion to be heard, if you don't like something just be diplomatic or say you don't agree with it.. it is always welcome to agree to disagree..
This section of the post together with a few others in the preceding pages (too many pages to review back) concerns my handle, so a little bit of explanation.
1. Familiar names like narayana, siva, krishna, lakshmi etc. are already taken up when one tries to register. So one has to be use modifications such as siva_nataraja, narayana@oppilli, partha#krishna etc. which are, I feel, indignities at the deities names we are named after. And then there are conditions, that it must be greater than 8 characters, but less than 13 etc.
2. When one is registered at more than one web forum, it is most unlikely that the user name registered at one forum will be available at another, so applying the sanskrit word/verb roots modification, one has to resort to 4th, 7th, 10th conjugation etc.
3. It is taxing to have multiple IDs and passwords and to remember them for use in different forums.
4. Here is a real case known to me personally - A young bright fellow was interested in advaita and was contributing articles in the list in his real name. He got a golden employment opportunity. His prospective employer as a part of pre- appointment appraisal ran a check through google/yahoo/microsoft web pages and came across his writings. They concluded that he had "weird" philosophical leanings and he was told that he was not being considered because of his non-conforming beliefs. So there are some dangers for a few.
5. Earlier I used to sign off the messages with my real name, but found that people mostly address by the handle name. So I dropped the practice.
nAma nAmaiva nAma mE - taittiriya Aranyaka 1.50.12
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