# Which Ed Is the Real Ed? (On Opal's Board) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 11, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350 "2000-04-11T21:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/1 "2000-04-11T21:31:00Z")
Ed Zotti? EZotti? Both? Neither? [Link](http://fathom.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000007.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/2 "2000-04-11T21:42:00Z")
I’m “EZotti.” “Ed Zotti” is a spoof. I can’t believe you guys think I’d post something that lame. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/3 "2000-04-11T21:49:00Z")
The fact that there’s no email confirmation set up may be a problem for Opal. We have enough trouble with boomerang trolls even though we make 'em register a new hotmail account every time (and soon perhaps, a new free ISP, which is more of a hassle). If they don’t have to do even that, I suspect they’ll pop up like dragon’s teeth. However, maybe you’ll get lucky and won’t get the ones with pit-bull-like tenacity like we sometimes do; and if Opal’s site stays fairly small trolls will be easier to spot and dispatch than they are here. Still, she might want to consider requiring email confirmation. I registered already (with a fake email addy, to see if it could be done). But I likely won’t post; I waste enough time _here_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/4 "2000-04-11T22:42:00Z")
Gaudere - I’ll probably bounce back and forth a bit for awhile myself. Although overall, I suspect that as I spend more time in the garden and on my bicycle, my MB time overall will continue to go down. (Work taking me on the road a lot these days, and being sick a couple of times, has pulled me away a lot lately anyway.) But you’re right: I think Opal really should require email confirmation, and this shows why. Ed - it had _me_ fooled; at the very least, it was a very well-done impersonation, unlike ‘ED ZOTTI’ on this board a week or two back, who probably didn’t fool the 12-year-old trolls. Anyway, if that makes me the sucker of the day, I’m it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/5 "2000-04-11T22:47:00Z")
I’d wondered where you’d got to recently, RT. I thought maybe you didn’t like us any more and were catting around with that ho DAMB (Darwin Awards MB) or sumpin’. ::sniff:: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/6 "2000-04-11T23:18:00Z")
I just registered over at Opal’s, and it seems like email confirmation is required now. ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/7 "2000-04-12T07:14:00Z")
{{{I just registered over at Opal’s, and it seems like email confirmation is required now.}}}—waterj2 She just registered the UBB software, so that might account for the change. Other UBB features are now enabled as well. * * * [TheHungerSite.com](http://www.thehungersite.com) _“If our lives are indeed the sum-total of the choices we’ve made, then we cannot change who we are; but with every new choice we’re given, we can change who we’re going to be.”_ ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/8 "2000-04-12T16:54:00Z")
Well, tar me , feather me and call me tweety bird! I was doubtful because of the use of lame… I am still in shock. You are right Ed, it was lame, totally, dude. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ed-is-the-real-ed-on-opals-board/1350/9 "2000-04-13T04:12:00Z")
They _both_ are… The Illuminatus Primus knows all 🙂 –Hagbard * * * Yes, I am an egomaniac; why do you ask? …You didn’t ask? Ah, but I knew you were dying to! …You weren’t?