On Jan 26, 9:59*pm, wrote:

Having an obscured partial name is a lot different
than having your full name come up on a search engine.

With all due respect, it's not. Even without Larry's post, googling
rfaulkiner immediately turns up your full name; and conversely,
googling your full name (which is what someone investigating you would
do) immediately turns up rfaulkiner--which would be an obvious item
for an investigator to google anyway, given your full name. (I'm not
sure why you think the name is 'obscured'. Google's web-based
newsgroup reader does omit part of the email address until you click
to see the full address, but other newsgroup readers display the full
address to begin with.)

Larry's tactic was unnecessarily rude, but otherwise inconsequential.

Be safe and enjoy your new certificate!