Utterly hysterical Gary! I also like Ken Norton's initial response!
However, I do agree with John Lind. You've definitely piqued my interest
when you say "readily identifiable photo." Based on this alone, I say put
'em up!
RonS
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> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Edwards
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> Go ahead and put his stuff up. If Elvis doesn't want us to know
> he is an OM user, OK, but we already know that he is still around. <g>
>
> Gary
>
> Garth Wood wrote:
>
> > Well, I have a problem, and I'd like the List members to weigh
> in with their thoughts.
> >
> > I've just received a submission set from a gentleman who
> doesn't want his name used, but wants to publish his images under
> a pseudonym. (I assume that this means that he doesn't want any
> indication of where he's from, either.) The submissions are
> generally of a good quality (though the scans will need a lot of
> tweaking to clean them up), and display a good eye and good
> judgment, at least in my opinion. Unusually, though, he has
> included a readily-identifiable photo of himself, even though he
> requests pseudonymity otherwise.
> >
> > Personally, my initial reaction was that I wasn't interested in
> pseudonymous/anonymous submissions -- I consider the Gallery one
> more way of emphasizing a sense of community amongst Oly users in
> general (and List members in particular), and I think it's
> difficult to cater to that community sense with a pseudonymous
> submission set. Of course, the final decision is mine to make
> (it's my time, my software, my server and my bandwidth that gets
> expended to put up anyone's submissions), but to date I've never
> refused a submission or substantially altered one (at least in my
> opinion). I always thought that editing like that, or refusing
> to publish, was an unwarranted expression of my own aesthetic
> judgment. However, in this case, it's *not* my aesthetic
> judgment which is being brought into play here.
> >
> > I understand and respect this gent's requirement for privacy in
> an online world where too frequently we can be tracked and
> profiled without our knowledge or consent. Yet I'm still
> reluctant to use these submissions -- if you want privacy, why submit?
> >
> > Appreciate any discussion or guidance from other List members.
> This one's a bit of a poser for me.
> >
> > Garth
> >
> >
> > "A bad day doing photography is better
> > than a good day doing just about
> > anything else."
> >
> > The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
> >
> > http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
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