" But they are often inundated by members who easily derail them by using the Mudcat membership code talk..."

so far, NO anonymous has ever given a serious, reasonable explanation for refusing to be identified in ANY way....even as 'guest XYZ', to distinguish them from 'guest at 12:37PM Oct19', which is TEDIOUS to refer to.

...we DO have any number of non-members who use some regular name to allow us to be reasonably sure of following what they are saying from day to day, and I have no problem with this. I don't care if you are anon because you are really Don Rumsfeld or just don't want PMs flooding you, it simply IS rude and confusing to expect everyone to treat each bit of anonymous opinion seriously when it is like coming home and finding notes from your neighbors about some issue taped to your front door with NO signature.

I cannot even begin to fathom why someone (in face, several someones) would continue to enter discussions in which they all use the same identifier........