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Marc MERLIN | 2 Apr 2012 21:06

Re: Update on Getting Shlomi Fish's Emails Unbanned from vger.kernel.org (for submitting a kernel patch and getting help with git on the Better-SCM site)

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:57:38PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> banned as well. I'd prefer a more permanent solution that won't involve
> acting immorally/unethically/anti-netiquetically or require any more unnecessary
> effort on the parties involved.

I'm going to go on a limb, and assume that your parents aren't called
Fish, and that they didn't call you Shlomi.

If somehow, they did, you'll be much better off stating in your
signature that it is your legal name.

If they did not, then you can stop ignoring hints that using a your real
name, not talking about yourself as the 3rd person, you're not Julius
Cesar or a king last I checked, will earn you more attention and
respect.

Oh, also, tone down on the "oh look at what happened to me, this is so
unfair, can I get you to be outraged for me?"

To me, and apparently others, you sound like a clown, and therefore get
the matching amount of respect and attention.

Marc
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Rick Moen | 3 Apr 2012 02:08
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Re: Update on Getting Shlomi Fish's Emails Unbanned from vger.kernel.org (for submitting a kernel patch and getting help with git on the Better-SCM site)

Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):

> I'm going to go on a limb, and assume that your parents aren't called
> Fish, and that they didn't call you Shlomi.

The given name 'Shlomi' is a relatively rare Biblical name from the book
of Numbers aka Badamidbar, and is (obviously) derived from the word for
'peace'.  You may have never run across it before in the USA or France,
but it's perfectly real nonetheless.  It's also sometimes used as a
diminutive for Shlomo (Solomon).

'Fish' is a somewhat common surname among Ashkenazic Jews, and is also a
relatively rare English surname.  (Not that you care, but, heaviest UK
concentration is in West Yorkshire and Cumbria counties, in the north of
England.)  One notes that Shlomi is from Israel.

I suspect that everyone's name is somewhere between peculiar and
hilarious in a number of common languages, and so am very slow to accuse
people with outlandish names of using fake ones -- and sympathetic
towards those so accused.  (My Uncle Reidar ducked the issue, going by
'Ray' when in the United States, just as my Aunt Bjorg went by 'Evie'.)

L'hitraot, 
Rick M.
(not entirely clueless re: the Hebrew language, having spent time as a
kibbutz volunteer)

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Muli Ben-Yehuda | 3 Apr 2012 05:48
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> From: Rick Moen <rick <at> linuxmafia.com>
> To: linux-elitists <at> zgp.org
> Date: 04/03/2012 03:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Update on Getting Shlomi Fish's Emails
> Unbanned from vger.kernel.org (for submitting a kernel patch and
> getting help with git on the Better-SCM site)
> Sent by: linux-elitists-bounces <at> zgp.org
>
> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):
>
> > I'm going to go on a limb, and assume that your parents aren't called
> > Fish, and that they didn't call you Shlomi.
>
> The given name 'Shlomi' is a relatively rare Biblical name from the book
> of Numbers aka Badamidbar, and is (obviously) derived from the word for
> 'peace'.  You may have never run across it before in the USA or France,
> but it's perfectly real nonetheless.  It's also sometimes used as a
> diminutive for Shlomo (Solomon).
>
> 'Fish' is a somewhat common surname among Ashkenazic Jews, and is also a
> relatively rare English surname.  (Not that you care, but, heaviest UK
> concentration is in West Yorkshire and Cumbria counties, in the north of
> England.)  One notes that Shlomi is from Israel.

Rick, if I may congratulate you for a truly elitist reply.

Marc, I have known Shlomi for over ten years in the real world through the
local Israeli Linux community. That is, unfortunate as it may be, his
perfectly normal real name.
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Marc MERLIN | 3 Apr 2012 05:57

Re: Update on Getting Shlomi Fish's Emails Unbanned from vger.kernel.org (for submitting a kernel patch and getting help with git on the Better-SCM site)

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 06:48:28AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> Rick, if I may congratulate you for a truly elitist reply.
> 
> Marc, I have known Shlomi for over ten years in the real world through the
> local Israeli Linux community. That is, unfortunate as it may be, his
> perfectly normal real name.

Ok, in that case I do owe Shlomi an apology for my default assumption
that the name was fake.

My recommendation for that possibility stands then. Sorry to be blunt,
but the name does sound fake and childish to people not knowledgeable
with Jewish culture and knowledge other many factoids that Rick beats
many of us on.

I really would help to put a small signature "this is my real name,
please see http://.. ".

Usually I give people the benefit of the doubt, but the name looked too
take to me, so sorry for that part.

Marc
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Rick Moen | 3 Apr 2012 07:49
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Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):

> My recommendation for that possibility stands then. Sorry to be blunt,
> but the name does sound fake and childish to people not knowledgeable
> with Jewish culture and knowledge other many factoids that Rick beats
> many of us on.

Eh, I just happen to know a lot of little things in a lot of areas of
life, most of them utterly useless.  However, if you ever need to know
where to get incredibly good Hungarian blintzes just off Rehov Dizengoff
in Tel Aviv, call me.  ;->

> I really would help to put a small signature "this is my real name,
> please see http://.. ".

Marc, I don't know about you, but I can imagine the experience of having
a name that some refuse to believe is real might get your stubborn up,
and become something of a badge of pride.  Nicknames and middle names
can be a useful sideways step (though middle names exist only in some
cultures and not others[1]).  

Alternatively, one might aspire to a level of fame and influence at
which an odd name doesn't matter.  When my mother worked at 
Rockefeller Foundation headquarters, the office was sometimes visited by
several members of the very important, philanthropically inclined family
of Governor Jim Hogg of Texas, including his very famous and very rich
adult daughter, Ima Hogg.  Nobody laughed.  Not ever.

[1] Fascinating Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_name
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Shlomi Fish | 3 Apr 2012 10:59
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:49:26 -0700
Rick Moen <rick <at> linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):
> 
> > My recommendation for that possibility stands then. Sorry to be blunt,
> > but the name does sound fake and childish to people not knowledgeable
> > with Jewish culture and knowledge other many factoids that Rick beats
> > many of us on.
> 
> Eh, I just happen to know a lot of little things in a lot of areas of
> life, most of them utterly useless.  However, if you ever need to know
> where to get incredibly good Hungarian blintzes just off Rehov Dizengoff
> in Tel Aviv, call me.  ;->
> 
> > I really would help to put a small signature "this is my real name,
> > please see http://.. ".
> 
> Marc, I don't know about you, but I can imagine the experience of having
> a name that some refuse to believe is real might get your stubborn up,
> and become something of a badge of pride.  Nicknames and middle names
> can be a useful sideways step (though middle names exist only in some
> cultures and not others[1]).  
> 
> Alternatively, one might aspire to a level of fame and influence at
> which an odd name doesn't matter.  When my mother worked at 
> Rockefeller Foundation headquarters, the office was sometimes visited by
> several members of the very important, philanthropically inclined family
> of Governor Jim Hogg of Texas, including his very famous and very rich
> adult daughter, Ima Hogg.  Nobody laughed.  Not ever.
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Marc MERLIN | 3 Apr 2012 17:57

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On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:49:26PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):
> 
> > My recommendation for that possibility stands then. Sorry to be blunt,
> > but the name does sound fake and childish to people not knowledgeable
> > with Jewish culture and knowledge other many factoids that Rick beats
> > many of us on.
> 
> Eh, I just happen to know a lot of little things in a lot of areas of
> life, most of them utterly useless.  However, if you ever need to know
> where to get incredibly good Hungarian blintzes just off Rehov Dizengoff
> in Tel Aviv, call me.  ;->

That's what I meant :)
(but more seriously I've always known you as a repository of random, and
most often useful knowledge).

> Marc, I don't know about you, but I can imagine the experience of having
> a name that some refuse to believe is real might get your stubborn up,
> and become something of a badge of pride.  Nicknames and middle names
> can be a useful sideways step (though middle names exist only in some
> cultures and not others[1]).  

Obviously I don't believe one has to change their name just so that it's
more culturally convenient to others, although my wife, her sister and
parents all just did that.
If my name were confusing to others, I'd be frustrated about it and
eventually state something in my signature about it to stop having to
repeat the same thing to everyone.
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Nick Moffitt | 3 Apr 2012 18:42
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Rick Moen:
> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc <at> merlins.org):
> > I really would help to put a small signature "this is my real name,
> > please see http://.. ".
> 
> Marc, I don't know about you, but I can imagine the experience of
> having a name that some refuse to believe is real might get your
> stubborn up, and become something of a badge of pride.  

Perhaps people with oft-questioned names could wear some kind of badges
on their lapels containing a long-form birth certificate in a QR code!
I'm sure that Google would support this, given their fast-track process
for cancelling accounts with names that don't pass the commonality test
in Fargo or wherever.

Those of you who know me personally will know this already, but someone
I am very close to has just such an unlikely name.  Perhaps you could
also object to my last name because of the nursery rhyme.  Just do a
Web search for "Rick Moen" and "second grade" to find him shutting down
scores of talentless hecklers who'd encountered his name for the first
time.  

A few lurkers on this list noted in IRC the other day that they honestly
didn't suspect that Marc's last name really was "Merlin" until he
started mocking Shlomi.

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Rick Moen | 3 Apr 2012 19:30
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Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick <at> teh.entar.net):

> Just do a Web search for "Rick Moen" and "second grade" to find him
> shutting down scores of talentless hecklers who'd encountered his name
> for the first time.  

Sorry, but who what?

Performing suggested search finds my assisting someone named Ashleigh
with a XFree86 problem and carelessly alluding to something 'he' wrote,
Ashleigh replying that she's a she, and my cheerily apologising for my
error.  (I try to be far more consistent about saying 'he or she', these
days.)

Second hit was my deciding to not waste time on a FidoNet flamer who
started out a reply post with 'Ricky, what you have engaged in is a
childish game' and went rapidly downhill from there.  For purposes of
that interaction, my name could have been John Smith and I'd have
dismissed the gentleman for the same reason, which was that he had
nothing to say.

Your point will doubtless be fascinating once you arrive at it.

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Teh Entar-Nick | 4 Apr 2012 14:31
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Rick Moen:
> Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick <at> teh.entar.net):
> > Just do a Web search for "Rick Moen" and "second grade" to find him
> > shutting down scores of talentless hecklers who'd encountered his
> > name for the first time.  
> 
> Sorry, but who what?
> 
> Performing suggested search finds...

Ah, sorry.  I guess I should have actually done a web search of that
instead of my private mail archives.  My bad, but in my defense I was
rushed away from my mail before I could go back to edit.  

> Your point will doubtless be fascinating once you arrive at it.

For a while you responded to mockery of your surname by intimating that
the heckler must still be around 7 years old.  At this point I've lost
the motivation to locate public evidence of this, and leave it as an
entertaining exercise for the reader.

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Rick Moen | 4 Apr 2012 18:51
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Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick <at> teh.entar.net):

> For a while you responded to mockery of your surname by intimating that
> the heckler must still be around 7 years old.

And remain inclined to do so.  Fortunately, I have not lately
encountered that particular variety of arrested development, so can
avoid even that minor waste of time.

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Here At InfoChambers | 6 Apr 2012 07:39

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On 04/02/2012 22:49, Rick Moen wrote:

>
> [1] Fascinating Wikipedia article:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_name
> ObSoftware:  Even more fascinating Web rant about programmer
> cluelessness concerning names:
> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
>

    I'm doing a bit of email catchup . . .

    Over time I've had no problem causing headaches for HR and company 
email systems by having a last name of MacIan . . . Emm Aye Cee Capital 
Eye Aye Enn.  No, that's not MACE-ee-an, it's mack-EE-an.  No, I'm not 
the senior US senator from Arizona.  Yes, while I tinker about with 
computers, no, my last name is not mack-Lan either.  That letter in the 
middle is Not a lower case ell, where if you are seeing and then 
transcribing an ell, then you clearly have one of those inferior fonts 
that does not include serifs.

    And then of course, when discussing names, one Must got to 
http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/blog/category/badbabynames/ . . . .

"I didn’t have this much trouble naming my first three kids either~~they 
are: Michelle Kaye, Kathleen Cierra, and Abbey Julieanna. What do you 
think of Kaylyn Arriana? Also, do you like the spelling Kaylan or Kaylyn 
better?

Observe the evolution from sanity to madness. First the middle names are
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Bob Bernstein | 3 Apr 2012 08:27
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:57:36PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> Ok, in that case I do owe Shlomi an apology for my default 
> assumption that the name was fake.

And all along I thought you were a smart guy. Now it comes out 
you're just another dumbass who thinks he knows everything. ("I've 
never seen that before; it must be fake!") Ha! And no you don't get 
any brownie points for being so "up front" about it.

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Marc MERLIN | 3 Apr 2012 17:49

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On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 02:27:16AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:57:36PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> 
> > Ok, in that case I do owe Shlomi an apology for my default 
> > assumption that the name was fake.
> 
> And all along I thought you were a smart guy. Now it comes out 

Depends who you ask.

> you're just another dumbass who thinks he knows everything. ("I've 

I'm afraid you're as mistaken as I was on that one (well, on the 'thinks
he knows everything' part). I suppose that makes you no better than me.

> never seen that before; it must be fake!") Ha! And no you don't get 
> any brownie points for being so "up front" about it.

I'm not playing for points. I said out loud what some others didn't, and
others just solved by kill filling Shlomi without saying anything.

But eh, I managed to embarras myself, so feel free to poke a stick at
me, that's the price of my having made a incorrect default assumption.

Some other day, I can also tell you about that guy who I had to Email
and was called Fernanda, who I assumed was female after even going
through the trouble of checking with a Spanish friend that Fernanda was
indeed a female name.

Marc
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Shlomi Fish | 3 Apr 2012 10:52
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Hi all,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 06:48:28 +0300
Muli Ben-Yehuda <MULI <at> il.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > I'm going to go on a limb, and assume that your parents aren't called
> > > Fish, and that they didn't call you Shlomi.
> >
> > The given name 'Shlomi' is a relatively rare Biblical name from the book
> > of Numbers aka Badamidbar, and is (obviously) derived from the word for
> > 'peace'.  You may have never run across it before in the USA or France,
> > but it's perfectly real nonetheless.  It's also sometimes used as a
> > diminutive for Shlomo (Solomon).
> >
> > 'Fish' is a somewhat common surname among Ashkenazic Jews, and is also a
> > relatively rare English surname.  (Not that you care, but, heaviest UK
> > concentration is in West Yorkshire and Cumbria counties, in the north of
> > England.)  One notes that Shlomi is from Israel.
> 
> Rick, if I may congratulate you for a truly elitist reply.
> 
> Marc, I have known Shlomi for over ten years in the real world through the
> local Israeli Linux community. That is, unfortunate as it may be, his
> perfectly normal real name.
> 

First of all, thanks to Rick and Muli for informing the list before I had a
chance to. Shlomi Fish is indeed my real name, which might sound more normal to
Israeli and Hebrew-speaking ears than to foreigners.
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