Ever since I came on Mudcat, in about '98 or so, I've signed my right name to every message I posted, I think.

At first, just for consistency's sake, I used the handle of Doesterr, because that was a name assigned by the computer net at work. But I signed every post with the full name.

A while back, Paltalk prevented my using Doesterr because "someone else" actually me) was already using it, so I called myself Uncle DaveO there, and so, again for consistency and for cross-platform recognition's sake, I adopted that handle here. And I still sign all messages with....

Dave Oesterreich