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Subject:RE: If you don't want people to know your age... From:"Susan Hogarth" <shogarth -at- scimetrika -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:56:26 -0400
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> ...
> Now we're all going to think that you've already
> rejected several prize candidates because you
> thought they had one foot in the grave, or because
> you thought they were still in high-school...
[SJH] Not at all. I'm only pointing out that, as humans love to make
associations (who among us doesn't make words out of license plate
letters?), people -will- speculate when you put juicy year-looking
information right in front of them.
You may WANT people to know your age; in which case
'bob_bornin73 -at- realage -dot- com' would be a perfect email addy!
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