How Many Online Aliases Do You Use?

My professional programming career began in aerospace, in flight test analysis actually, and audit trail requirements were that every document, code or design/test/guide/whatever and every change be signed or accompanied by a signed certificate, With peer review also generating a set of set of signed documents, it becomes second nature to be prepared to accept responsibility for your output. This does not, or at least in a well managed team should not, lead to self promotion, or unseemly competition.
I am now retired, and have no interest in "reputation" good or bad. My opinions have been formed over the last 40+ years of computing, and frankly I don't care about what is fashionable or cool or politically correct, but I do hope that people will find my thoughts interesting or even helpful. I still write programs to do with my hobbies, but I don't publish them as I am unable (or unwilling) to find the time to offer support, it does mean that I consider myself reasonably current in terms of languages and design philosophies and I am quite willing to express my opinions on such matters. Because I fought long and hard to establish and develop structured design and programming methodologies and still believe that such techniques are essential to good software engineering practices, my opinions on "interactive programming" are probably seen by the younger coder as "extreme", but they are my opinions and I will not hide behind AC.
I don't care if you disagree, I will even mod you up if your disagreement is well expressed and founded on real experience, I am happy to hear different approaches to the same problem, and might even admit that Java has place in computing (well I might be exaggerating there).
So I don't need aliases, and if you feel that you do I would ask you to re-examine your reasons. Are you frightened about a visit from the "Gubbermint", or worried that your employer will object to your on-line life, or ashamed? Remember that all it takes for evil to prosper is that good people do nothing. Stand by your name, be prepared to justify your ideas, and do not care about the opinions of those who don't. Sometimes you will be wrong (we all drop the ball sometimes), this is not a bad thing, not even for reputation, as long as when you find out, you admit it gracefully, and if somebody discovers your error, thank them for their efforts.
In case you are interested, my sig is my clan motto, and translates as "neither by fate nor luck" , or in the vernacular "by my own efforts" so perhaps my attitude is a genetic thing:).

You can have "pseudo"-aliases in Gmail as well. According to their help guide, just append +whatever to your handle and you'll receive the email in your inbox. Filtering, labeling, etc should all work.

Example: username+slashdot@gmail.com

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096 [google.com]

Internally, Anonymous Coward's UID is "666".

So, next time you see one of those threads where people brag about how few digits are in their UIDs, you can one-up most of them.

http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=666 [slashdot.org]