sonjay - 3:01 pm on Jan 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Maybe I'm just weird... A "manly man" name wouldn't work much better with me than a sexy female name. I would still assume it's a made-up name.

Real-sounding names probably work best with me. Yeah, like pleeker. An e-mail from, say, a Herbert Pleeker -- now, that's a real person! It has to be. No one would make up a name like that in an attempt to appeal to the subconscious limbic part of our brain.

Whereas anything from "Studly Toolslinger" or "Jennifer" is simply not a real person. Period.