>>>>did you mean to add something ?
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>>>Check your private messages :o) I posted a link but then realized I couldn't remember if it was ok to post links to other forums here or not so I removed it.
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>>thanks, and based on reading that message on the other forum I am even more certain this is a real person who probably stumbled away bewildered and dismayed that what she thought would be a professional forum was a weird adolescent psychodrama.
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>>I understand there is speculation LL was Jay,which I find absurd as I can't imagine him being that civil for two whole messages. <s>
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>>At least over there she will also have the benefit of Cetin who, as always, is a professional and a gentleman.
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>The only thing that made me suspicious (and I would never even question it in the thread because it is better to give the benefit of a doubt for any new member who may be innocently looking for help) is the photo. I've seen that photo before, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember where. It may even have been another forum. It could have even been the same person (the real person no less) where-ever I saw it.
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>Besides, I don't know of any other forum which requires a member to 1) use their real identity and 2) verify their identity. Which means, so what if it was or was not the person who he/she claimed to be?

My personal preference on a professional forum is that people use their real identities including their real, grownup name. I don't really want to have technical discussions with squigglyguy26 or bongbong11. (especially bongbong - the Marcos family once plotted against me)

I guess the thing that creeped me out was that a woman posted a picture so evidently people ran off and googled to see if this could somehow be true. I know there are guys here that think you are really a kid named Irving who lives in his parent's basement with his collection of StarTrek "Action Figures".