The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65255   Message #1080996
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Dec-03 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Guest Postings
Subject: RE: BS: Guest Postings
Personally I'd trust Joe Offer to carry out this kind of role more than I'd trust just about anyone else. I wouldn't do it if you paid me, and I wouldn't do it anywhere near as well either.

The Shambles has written some pretty good songs. And I think that might perhaps be a better medium for protesting about things.
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I suppose there's no point in saying it yet again, but the stuff about nameless GUEST postings isn't about anonymity at all. A GUEST with a handle is just as anonynmous, and so for that matter is a member with a pseudonym. But a GUEST who posts without any name is in effect using the same name as umpteen other GUESTs who do the same thing, sometimes several in the same thread, and that just gets confusing and interferes with thebfree flow of communication. (And it makes it pretty well impossible to tell whether a particular remark is meant ironically or not.)