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thatbags Fri 27-Mar-15 20:43:35

You could be quartz or RQ.

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absent Fri 27-Mar-15 20:41:21

It's only the confusable ones that perhaps people wouldn't mind avoiding abbreviating unless a poster actually objects to abbreviations. I really don't like being addressed as a muscle group. grin

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Ana Fri 27-Mar-15 20:38:42

rosequartz, I don't think there's any problem with you and other roses (I can only think of one). absent is just being protective of her own user name.

I must admit I sometimes get confused between the two (or is it three?)*whens*.

I know it's easier and seems more friendly to abbreviate user names, but perhaps we shouldn't?

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Galen Fri 27-Mar-15 20:32:32

Are there any other Galens?

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rosequartz Fri 27-Mar-15 20:00:48

I chose my name (an amalgam of my given middle name and sort of maiden surname) before I realised there were other rose somethings. But if it confuses people I will change as I was not the first rose something.

I will try to cut and paste names (but can't promise to do it on the tablet) hmm)

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absent Fri 27-Mar-15 19:50:09

As Gransnet has grown – it will shortly celebrate its fourth birthday – there has been an overlap, although not, of course, a duplication of names. We have a number of rose and katy variations, for example, and I, naturally, am particularly aware of the recent arrival of absentgrandma. Can I put in a plea for using a name that is distinctively identifiable when you are replying directly to a specific poster. I spent a lot of time this morning trawling through a very long thread looking for something I didn't remember posting which had sparked a somewhat acerbic response to absent. Eventually I tracked down the "offending" post which I hadn't made at all. I don't want to change my name as I have been absent here, as it were, for nearly four years and I wouldn't dream of expecting someone else to do so.

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