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J LevineMy screenname has a long history...my original screenname on USENET was Whiteness, a high school nickname given to me while I was playing basketball with my varisty team name (I am very pale/white and the team was predominately african american---and one of the guys knew I loved Richie "Whitey" Ashburn)...when IBM came out with a free online service called Promenade (the forerunner to AOL) my screen name was given a 3 because you were required to have letters and numbers...I had to shorten it to "Wite3" a few years later when Promenade officially became AOL and we had a limit on characters for e-mailing (no such thing as address lists in 1990 yet and you had to type out everyones screen name by hand). Was just easier for my trading groups and friends to type Wite3...
Joshua