Re: [privacy] I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

The first name given by our parents is a thing we have to just accept - and be proud of it.

But names including a hyphen combined to double-barrelled names are sometimes very funny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name

There are other very unique combinations as well ;-)

Juha-Matti

"Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote: 
> My grandfather's Eastern-European surname got changed to "Smith" at Ellis
> Island in the 1920's.  My wife also lost her unique last name when she
> married me. ;-)  However her first and last name is still a pretty unique
> combination.
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:23 PM
> To: rms () computerbytesman com
> Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [privacy] I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:46:50 EST, rms () computerbytesman com said:
>
> > BTW, my name isn't particularly identifying.  I suspect there are at least
> > 20,000 "Richard Smiths" in the U.S. To identify me specifically one needs
> > some other information such as a birth year and a Zip code.  
>
> Some of us aren't so lucky.

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