Dear Vesper:

I’ve been fine, thank you. I see why you’d be distressed over seeing your name being used by another member. It happened to me too and I was distressed over it myself. What I learned when I inquired about it is that each member has his or her own username, one that no other member can use, but in addition to that unique username, each members chooses a second name that is not unique to the member. So your username is not Vesper, Vesper is your secondary name (there is tech term for that secondary name, I don’t know what it is, and I am a member here, not an employee or anything but a member.

I suppose one way to solve the problem is for you to register as a member under a different email and this time use a secondary name that is unlikely to be used by anyone else, or just let some time pass. The great majority of members don’t post many times, sometimes once only, sometimes twice and in a day or two you will not see your secondary name used by someone else anymore, or very unlikely.

What do you think?

(I will be back to the computer in a couple of hours).

anita