Jeepers Hugh are you NUTS?  Flogging???  Certainly "Susanne" initially
evoked patronage just as Sheenagh described.  Sheenagh makes sense.
Mairead

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Hugh Tolhurst wrote:

> Sheenagh,
>
> Roddy's point was specific in that it was about
> the impersonation of a suicidally depressed woman.
>
> This impersonation was designed to sabotage a sensitive
> discussion and an important discussion
> (possibly more than we know) about depression among poets.
>
> I'm really disappointed it happened and have the lowest
> view of the perpetrator.
>
> You Sheenagh Pugh <[log in to unmask]>wrote:-
>
> some do
> > it for purposes of criminal deception
>
> and I would like to point out that in Victoria (and it is probably
> the same in New South Wales), where death by hanging has been
> abolished as a punishment ( by act of government statute),
> flogging is still on the books and available to the courts as
> a sentencing option.
>
> sincerely
>
> Hugh Tolhurst
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sheenagh Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re identity
>
>
> > In reply to Roddy Lumsden, who wrote about "people
> > abusing the list with false identities... Surely there
> > must be some way of checking that list members are
> > genuine before they sign up?"
> >
> > Who says you can't be "genuine" and use a different
> > name sometimes, if it happens to express another side
> > of your personality?  Ever since I discovered how easy
> > it is to get email addresses without identifying
> > yourself, I've used, for different purposes, (and not
> > here) three or four e-identities that aren't the ones
> > I was born with, but which enable me to say or do
> > things my first identity might not. I know a fair
> > number of others who are into this. Admittedly some do
> > it for purposes of criminal deception but most are
> > just interested in, for example, knowing how it feels
> > to have people react to what you say in the belief
> > that you're a man rather than a woman - certainly
> > makes odds to the patronising attitude of some men.
> > Isn't pretending to be someone else, creating a
> > character, part of what writers do anyway? Personally
> > I don't care whether the character's fictional or not,
> > provided he/she says interesting things.  And so what
> > of you react to them in the belief that they're real?
> > It doesn't make you a fool, and it doesn't mean your
> > sympathy is wasted, unless you have so little of it
> > that you can't spare any. I've felt pain for plenty of
> > fictional characters and I always assumed that if
> > anything, it would help me react more sympathetically
> > to real people too. It would be better to open up to
> > potential "bores and clowns" than to be a cliquish
> > little in-group with the same names constantly
> > responding to each others' quips, sneers and musings.
> >
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