Posted by Gremlin [12.211.200.127 - 12-211-200-127.client.attbi.com] on 03 June 2003 at 08.25.28 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Locke and Demosthenes posted by Baron Greenback on 02 June 2003 at 21.27.39 ZuluTime:

They stayed away from the nets that required use of a real name. That wasn't hard because real names only had to do with money. They didn't need money. They needed respect, and that they could earn. With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citisen started equal, on the nets....
     They were not bland, and people answered. The responses that got posted on the public nets were vinegar, the responses that were sent as mail, for Peter and Valentine to read privately, were poisonous. But they did learn what attributes of their writing were seized upon as childish and immature. And they got better.