Randy your response has me a little puzzled. It was in 1998 - before my time on FT, but I do recall from reading many reports in my time here that there was indeed a user who had the user name Fukuchan. He posted for over 6 months under that name it seems. He was being widely proposed for the monthly Omni award in 1999, so he presumably was a useful FT member? That user name is not blocked by the profanity checker. Well it is not here in the Sept 1998 debut raising his dilemma. You posted yourself you were comfortable with that user name.

The name Fukuchan clearly did not offend Catman, Punki, Boabab, Matt Wald, Mileage Addict , Beckles, Premex, onefreeman or blondebomber etc, etc in 1998/99, as many threads will show including the one referenced below. Indeed it did not seem to offend anyone that I can see posting there. Many of his posts are still readable on archives.

What is NOT visible now is his stated locale, as that has been deleted, and my apologies here as I have read others here refer to him (un-corrected) as being of Japanese heritage - first time anyone has mentioned his Seattle non-Japanese background that I have read. (But of course you might have known that all along and not posted it before? )

His original user name was as you say, and this area is well covered (and unprofanity edited) in the early threads as - F U K U and I agree that is a user name I'd ask someone to consider changing too. What you do not mention is that it was mutually approved as Fukuchan for use thereafter, and that was the person I was referring to in my post.

You yourself had the following to say about that member at the base of this thread, where many FT'ers commented favourably on that user. It seems he was asked to change his user name 6 months after most were seemingly comfortable with it, and soonafter left FT?


[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 10-02-2002).]