# of Real Tim Mays, RTM (r)

Responding to msg by ravage@bga.com (Jim choate) on Tue, 16 Aug 
12:57 PM



Zero RTM (r) in Manhattan.  Maybe more encrypted; only 60% here 
list.

Um, just out of curiousity, what is supposed to be proved by telling us 
how many people named "Tim May" live in various cities?

Some names are relatively unique. I've never met or known of another Ben 
Goren, though I did once meet a Benjamin Gorin.

The East [Phoenix] Valley White Pages (Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and a 
half-dozen others) is just about an inch thick, and includes over fifty 
John Smiths and thirty-five J. Smiths. Altogether, there's about five 
pages of Smiths; and the only other Gorens in the book are my parents.

It's probably not all that surprising that we have a plethora of 
Diogeneseseses, considering the role "he" played in _Ender's Game._ 
Pr0duct C1pher (sp?), on the other hand, probably won't ever have a 'nym 
conflict.

All this is just an elaborate way of saying, "Tim's right." Duplicate 
'nyms should be dealt with the same way duplicate names are now. Mostly, 
we shouldn't worry about it all that much.

b&

PS There are no Tim or T. Mays in my phone book. So what? b&

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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 
> Diogeneseseses, considering the role "he" played in _Ender's Game._ 
> Pr0duct C1pher (sp?), on the other hand, probably won't ever have a 'nym 
> conflict.

I think the two kids were nymed "Locke" and "Demosthenes." My copy of
of "Ender's Game" is bured somewhere, so I can't check. But I don't
think Diogenes was one of them.

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


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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.

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