R.Wieser wrote:
Bill,

It is impersonating, by definition, since you're taking someone else's
name,

Lolz. There are *lots* of people name "bill". Why did you take mr.
Gates, Clintons, Murrays, Christals and Joels christian name (to name
just a few famous people) ?

Also, "Mark Twain" is 1) a pseudonym 2) something he took from a
water-dept measurement statement on the mississippi boats he worked on.
Yes, thats right, it was not his to begin with.

And no, its not. Only when you try to make others believe that you *are*
that other person its impersonation. Which does not even have to include
using someones name.

Lots of people share their christian *and* family name with other people,
most of which are not even known to them. I hope you're not going to
claim that means all of them are impersonating each other. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Well Rudy, I still don't get it. It sure seems to me if I sign as Ernest
Hemingway, it's implying I think I'm Ernest Hemingway and sending that
message out. But maybe nowadays none of this stuff matters.

Signing as Bill or Joe or Sue is completely different. Because we are those
people.

I guess I'm too old fashioned. And that wouldn't surprise me in this day
and age.