It seems unlikely that the problem you name can be solved. If I want a state where every "meta" I see everywhere means you, and there's to be no universally recognised authority handing out names like "meta", then other people who call themselves "meta" will have to appear to me by some other name.
I don't see many name puns on LJ - I think it's part of IRC tradition. Perhaps it's something that a secure alternative would break the same way proportional fonts break ASCII art.
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Date: 2002-07-04 06:46 am (UTC)It seems unlikely that the problem you name can be solved. If I want a state where every "meta" I see everywhere means you, and there's to be no universally recognised authority handing out names like "meta", then other people who call themselves "meta" will have to appear to me by some other name.
I don't see many name puns on LJ - I think it's part of IRC tradition. Perhaps it's something that a secure alternative would break the same way proportional fonts break ASCII art.