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Old October 6th 03, 07:47 PM
Jeff Renkin
 
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Gee, how did I know not to use my real name because some wacko like you would be
looking me up on QRZ to get my address and whatnot. Why were you trying to look me
up? So you could put me on all sorts of mailing lists or come visit my house and
throw eggs at it? Grow up!


Why would he want to do that?


I don't know, why not ask him? He is the one that for some reason feels the need to know
my name and address. Not needed to have this discussion. I don't need to search and
find some name and call sign that belongs to someone else and pose as that identity as this
guy does. At least I am honest and don't need to hide behind someone else's identity.

All he wants to do is verify that you
actually walk the walk, and anre not just talking the talk. He's
posting his call in the clear,


Who says that is HIS call sign??? Just because someone posts with a real sounding name
or call does not mean it is theirs. I doubt even he would be so stupid to post his real
call sign knowing that his address and other personal info is available to everyone here
and then start causing arguments as he is doing. Then again, he doesn't seem to
understand why learning code has nothing to do with using a microphone, so perhaps he IS
that stupid. Point is, there is no way to know if he stole that call sign or not without
further investigation.

Never assume someone posting with a call sign really owns that callsign.

There is an ancient saying: "On Usenet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Anybody can claim to be anything (or anybody) they wish. The
operative word is "claim."


Exactly. Don't assume he is who he says he is. He just wanted to prove he was a
General and posted with a general's call sign. I could just as easy find an Extra
callsign and pose as that person too. That would not be a nice thing to do, however,
as then this nut will go and vandalize the house and property of some poor guy who had
nothing to do with this argument at all.

You make a rather roundabout claim to to be General or Extra and even
a GROL,


Yeah and I had the first class license too, before they made us turn them in for the GROL
which is nothing more than the same questions that is on the Extra ham exam, only without
the morse code requirement. If you take the Extra, you might as well just sit through
the GROL because most of the questions were taken from one to put on the other.