It's just occurred to me that I'd not been annoyed by David (Boazy) for some time. Checked his post history and the last post was

25/06/2008 12:19:35 PM Good morning Pericles and Spikey. On the one issue of the Pastor and Sweden.... lets re e.....

Is he on a long suspension?
Permanently excluded?
Got himself a life off OLO? (seems unlikely)
Suffered a dire fate which would have us chipping in to send a get well card and flowers?

It would be handy to be able to see a user status. If someone was suspended it would show, if going away and wanting to tell others then we could update it.

R0bert

Robert,

A certain polycarp started posting threads at 25/06/2008 6:01:17 AM.

Make that, "... posting TO threads at 25/06/2008 6:01:17 AM"

R0bert, the suggestion is good.

But regarding BD, the general consensus is he uses the name Polycarp now, although as far as I am aware he has never admitted to that. The cross over date in the comment history is consistant with that theory:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.asp?id=51726&show=history

And for this afternoons trivia question: how long did it take to spot the transformation from BD to Polycarp, and who got the prize for spotting it first?

RobP and rstuart, thanks for the heads up on that. I'd not paid much attention to polycarp but the similarities are striking and when combined with the timing of the initial post it looks like that might be the case.

Now I'll have to think about the pro's and con's of having an identity linkage so other users can follow a full posting history. Personally I think it's bad manners to change an alias and not fess up. Then if I'd made some of the posts David has made over the years I'd not want a proven linkage back to them.

R0bert