I just found out yesterday that someone at that site (I think it’s that one, anyhow) is posting using the screen name Ronin.
I want everyone to know that it is NOT me. I have NOT been to that site, and I will NOT go to that site. I have no time, inclination or reason to mingle with grouchy, whiney personalities who can’t act civilized in a civilized forum.
Free Republic has been my online home and my lifeline back to America since Whitewater days and I have no desire change that.
I was going to post a vanity to say this, but then I decided that it would be stirring up more trouble than it was worth.
This looks like a good place to clarify that, however.
Heck, I almost used "r0nin" when I first decided to sign up... only to find out someone (you) already had the name "Ronin" and I figured mine would be too close to yours (and "disrespectful" from a new poster). I'd used that handle for years on BBSs.
I've considered changing my handle several times... but there's something about a 1998 sign-on date that is just too compelling to throw away... I'm not sure there are many other things that have stayed in my life for 14 years...
I’m not going to bother going to that site, but if anybody on there is posting as ‘wastedyears’, or saying it’s me under a different name, like another Iron Maiden song, it is most certainly not me. I’ve put years and over 25,000 posts into Free Republic, and the only time I’m going to stop is when either the internet shuts down, or I die.
FReeper to the end of time.
I registered my FR screen name there to prevent the very thing that happened to you.
No Photo-Id required?