From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 94 14:47:56 PDT
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: # of Real Tim Mays, RTM (r)
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> 
> While I'm not participating in the "How many..." scavenger hunt, I do
> want to make a correction to Ben Goren's comment:
> 
> > It's probably not all that surprising that we have a plethora of 

> 
> On the scavenger hunt, my high school chemistry teacher once mentioned
> the "death of your father." Turned out she had assumed from an
> obituary entitled "Timothy May dies" that perhaps my father had died.
> 
> Names are rarely unique. But, then, few of us know any of the other
> members of the list except by our electronic identities.
> 
> --Tim May
> 

I am accutely aware of the name duplication problem.  Even  using my
middle initial doesn't buy me much.  There are many Stephen Williams's
in most areas.  Maybe Stephen Douglas Williams is fairly unique, if
you don't count my father, but that doesn't help much.  Now if I
changed my name to Zaphod or something...

I use companies I've started, my domain, etc. to try to establish a
unique identity.

sdw
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