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Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a Boost.JSON library?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-30 20:22:41


on Tue Dec 30 2008, OvermindDL1 <overminddl1-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Joel de Guzman
> <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>>
>>> on Thu Dec 25 2008, OvermindDL1 <overminddl1-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> for note, just adding OvermindDL1 at hotmail.com, or at gmail.com, or
>>>> at yahoo.com, and so forth will usually catch me if you just want to
>>>> add me directly, I do not check any of those other emails though, only
>>>> gmail and my own websites email
>>>
>>> While we're on the topic, would you mind putting your real name (or make
>>> up a consistent and plausible name!) in your address? Boost is not a
>>> culture of anonymous posters, and it's a bit jarrying to converse with
>>> someone whose email makes him sound like he's the central processing
>>> unit for the borg hive. ;-)
>>
>> Interesting. I already asked that same question from "Overmind"
>> in the Spirit list. It turns out that people in the real world
>> really calls him "Overmind". So, it's a real pseudonym, FWIW.
>> Not a concocted for anonymity.
>
> Correct. I can give you my 'legal' name if that is what you are
> inquiring for, but a google search of my real name will not find me (I
> just did such a search, tried adding my city name, some other personal
> info, as far as I can tell Google thinks that I do not exist...).
> Basically everyone knows me as OvermindDL1, been almost ten years now.

OK, if you show up at BoostCon next year I expect you to ask for
"OvermindDL1" on your nametag ;-)

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

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