--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
I suggest that the existing procedures are adequate for this. If someone seems to be trying it on then we can tell them to change their username because misleading or disruptive usernames are not allowed. If they say that is their real name we block them anyway. No appeals.
But what if it is their real name anyway? What if they fax a copy of their driver's license and birth certificate to Jimbo and it read " Jeremy Irons" or "Frank Zappa" or "Christina Applegate". What then? Do we say, sorry buddy, we know you've been a contributor for years, and you're a swell guy, but you gotta change your anme because some hollywood actor has more rights that you?
I say if you can prove your identity, it's first come first served.
(check out nissan.com. The guy, Uzi Nissan, registered nissan.com in 1995, to support his business, nissan computer corporation. Nissan Motors Corporation of Japan has been suing the living daylights out of him for 5 years (always denied, rejected, by US courts.))
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