Right, but it actually gets a trifle more complex than that.

The thing is, there is a non-zero chance that the two of you have crossed paths IRL. As twilight2000 points out, you're both congoing fen, and I'm almost certain that you overlapped at OryCon and/or Portland Westercons for awhile there.

Also, I'm fairly sure there are overlaps between twilight2000's extended Whitman connections and your extended Sunset connections, given some of the particular Sunset folk who went to Whitman within a year or two of our graduation. But that's likely best discussed in email, rather than over the public 'Net....