I still don't understand why one person would pretend to be two. 
Please would someone explain.
If they do, for whatever reason, is it fair to 'out' them? Just as when.if someone leaves and returns as someone else, is it fair to 'out' them? Surely they must have a reason?
Stansgran Look I can't be Greatnan, Bags and absent as has been suggested a number of times. I do have other things to do during my days. Also, it's a pretty rotten suggestion from Bags's and Greatnan's points of views. I think someone even suggested that JessM and I were the same person – an equally absurd notion. The only "other" person I have ever been on Gransnet was absentgrana before I resigned my membership, so it isn't difficult to recognise me now I have "unresigned".
To prove it, there is a picture of Bags and me, plus some other grannies on one or more of the Scottish granny's profiles. Bags is the attractive, neat-looking, small person; I am the long lanky one who resembles a man in drag.
GNHQ has explained a few times that they have arcane ways and means of preventing one person having two screen names at the same time. However, if someone resigns, they cannot use the same name if they rejoin. As a result, people's names do change even if they only add a different number to the end 
. Also, some people change their names because they don't want family members to recognise them or there has been some other problem. However, they still cannot use two names at the same time.
On a completely different subject, isn't it interesting how names that we would have considered horribly old-fashioned when our children were born have come back into fashion? I know a number of young Stanleys and Normans.
Stansgran I have found someone who thinks my posts are worth reading - thank you! 
I agree that some names can alike and that people changing their names can lead to confusion.
Gracesmum I hope the bit that was 'way off beam' didn't refer to my posts
Don't be silly - oops am I allowed to say that? It was the confustication of bags/absent gally/gillybob etc
Your posts are always pearls of wisdom, as are mine of course!
gm 
think I'll get some more email addresses and try it.
I can then have some veryboring interesting stupid intelligent conversations
Easy enough. Use the work one or next doors or dd's .
Hey I could be lots of people and have a really good row discussion with myself!
I'd need to run up to Dh's and then back down to mine - hmmm - might lose weight that way.
A few years ago a friend of mine belonged to the BBC Casualty forum which used to get very heated. I called in one day to find her sitting at her PC which was covered in yellow Post It notes reminding her who she was and what she'd just said. Apparently she used three e-mail addresses. I found it hilarious.
I have enough problems trying to remember who I am without trying to be someone else as well.
jeni you might even get a sensible answer
We have 4 computers so I could have 4 identities, but I have a life instead even though I am lying down as the meds make me very woozy. [druggedupandstupidemoticon]
Wish my co-cos did that to me. Have taken (quick check in pocket) four of today's eight and am still in pain . Time for the next two, methinks.
Is your back improving, moved?
It only takes one to knock me out Bags, although the pharmacist said my dose is bigger than usual. No, its still getting worse! 
Sorry that you too are suffering. Doesn't help to know you are not alone does it?
I love how this thread has morphed into talking about taking co-co thingies instead of offence
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