Good point, but if people contribute to online communities with a certain moniker they should not be surprised if others innocently get their name wrong.
All it takes is to sign at the bottom of the message with your preferred appellation, as I've done below.
Paul (see? pretty easy)
> I am getting good knowledge of piping. it is becomming
> very rigid in place of flexibility as the preferred
> nature. Gangadharan Ji as I know him, wished only to
> avoid him as to be recognized as Gang and his nearest
> preference was Ganga. let us respect him.
> Let us go back to flexible piping.
> NK Roy
>
> --- Gang Cvg <cvg_gang@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear Kuldeep,
> > Yes, WRITE CORRECTLY! "m" in mishra should have been
> > "M" if I am not mistaken.
> > Regards.
> > C. V. Gangadharan.
> > --- Misra Kuldeep SPEL-T1
> > <kuldeep.misra@siemens.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > As most of the people do not know etiquettes of
> > > different cultures and our discussions are
> > technical
> > > too then then there should be no problem for any
> > one
> > > in name, whether it is first, second or last but
> > if
> > > someone request somebody to write his/ her with
> > this
> > > or that name then he/we should try to write
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Kuldeep misra
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Bowers
> > [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:06 PM
> > > To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [PipingDesign] Names
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > What is there in the names?
> > >
> > > For westerners I think there is always going to be
> > > confusion with other
> > > languages. We all go by our first name, and when
> > we
> > > see names that we
> > > don't recognize we pick one and use it.
> > >
> > > I once knew a brilliant Vietnamese mechanical
> > > engineer and he didn't
> > > care what you called him, as long as you called
> > him.
> > > I once asked him
> > > about the proper way, but he didn't really care
> > > about it.
> > >
> > > You can call me Paul or Bowers. Sometimes people
> > > call me shithead and I
> > > respond to that as well.
> > >
> > > Paul
Received on Sat Jul 03 11:54:00 2004
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