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> Hey, you have JH to imitate you so it's only fair.  I see myself as a
> newsgroup equivalent of a tribute band.  I love Cunningham and
> he's been a hero of mine for years so it's lovely to be able to pretend
> to be him every now and then.

It's fine if you want to be a Mikey tribute poster, but you need to change
your ID to something which _isn't_ Michael Cunningham, but sounds _like_ it,
or draws reference to it. Some people think it's him posting and that's all
credit to your excellent mimicry, but perhaps Mikey would prefer it if you
called yourself "Father Mickey" or "Hunningcam" or something.

For instance, I'm highly flattered by JH's attempts to emulate my unique
posting style, and tbh I think he's very good at it. However, if he were to
post under the name "Joe Horowitz", I'd find it very offensive and an
infringement of my right to speak for myself.

Other tribute-posters who have respected these principles in the past
include Sensible Tiger, Tricky Conlan, Sue de Jonza, Miss Rainstick,
Certicly Not, Ben Dunn and the legendary Camel J. Fox.

Joe