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nymshifting

Practice of changing names in order to suit one's purposes (such as avoiding being identified or to adopt an identity). Typically done on-line in such as email adresses.
He's been posting to other lists as well, he's nymshifting all over the place.
nymshifting by PeterP June 26, 2008
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nimshifter 

Chuck calls you this when he's otherwise speechless.
I told Chuck his DSL modem couldn't possibly be dialing a number and he got mad and said I was a nimshifter.