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mem
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Post Number: 2783
Registered: 5-2001


Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Guilty. And, although rather amusing at the time, it'll never happen again.
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algebra2
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

guilty
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Gene Z
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Lend it out? Half the time I can't even remember it.

Sr. Moments are such fun!
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Joan
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That's one scary question. Just imagining certain MOL posters trading on line identities is enough to make me cringe.

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mem
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 4:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Joan,
It happens a lot. I know more MOLers that have done it than not.
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Joan
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 5:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mem:

I'm not surprised, just imagining some amusing consequences.
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greenetree
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 5:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hmmm. Never. Wouldn't do it. The only person who knows any of my names/passwords is The Spouse, for my hotmail.

Although, I would let TS be me on MOL, if she wanted to. But, she shows little interest & laughs at me, which is why I can get away with half the stories I tell about her.

OK - here's the real question: has anyone lent out their password/screenname to someone other than a spouse or child?
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Tom Reingold
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I would never do it. I don't even share my passwords with my family. Well, I share the passwords to get on my computers but not to take my identity in email or here. And I think of passwords that are hard to remember and type. They're total gibberish combinations of letters and numbers.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing

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Dave
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I only share my password with Strawberry.
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bobk
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

All the time, but only to my multiple personalities. :-)
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algebra2
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 7:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Lend it out or have it pried from me? I've since changed it.
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ML1
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 8:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

why would I lend out my screen name?

too many people know who I am, so I want to be personally responsible for everything that appears next to my "byline."

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bookgal
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 8:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've offered to lend it to Mr. Bookgal but he is completely disinterested in MOL. I wouldn't do it for the same reasons as Ml1..even though I post under a screenname, lots of people know who I am, I've never hidden it. I regret some of my own posts only too quickly after I made them, I don't want to feel guilty about something someone else wrote under my name.
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just me fromsouthorange
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i have but it was on aol, not here. big mistake because my nephew got me tossd off aol because of his actions in chat. but that was about 7 years ago. i'm back on aol now.
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ajc
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Post Number: 2500
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Never have, never will...
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ML1
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

one thing I'll never do is post my own mug under my screen name.

Tom Reingold -- you're a brave man.

I'm uneasy enough when a friend introduces me to someone as "ml1," so I can't imagine how creeped out I'd be if complete strangers walked up and said "hi ml1!"
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Tom Reingold
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 7:15 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What bad could happen from someone recognizing me?
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing

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sbenois
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 8:13 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Which one?


Let me see...

No
No
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No
Stole that one
No
No
Yes
No
No
Maybe



---> Brought to you by Sbenois Engineering LLC <-
Let's Go Royals
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Soda
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 10:41 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The Oracle knew my password without being told.
...Which reminds me: I'd better change it again.
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mem
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Username: Mem

Post Number: 2797
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 12:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm kidding - I never shared, not even with my sister(s).
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Marc
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 1:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is kind of weird. Yesterday you start a thread about giving out your screename. Today you say that a nude picture was sent out from your screename and also that you were only kidding about giving out your screename.
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mem
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Username: Mem

Post Number: 2806
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 3:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Marc,
Yup, it's weird, and I don't like it. Someone asked me to write that last post (long story), but it's confirmed that the two incidences have nothing to do with each other.

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