Then you are blind, McGrath. There are scads of threads in which people piss and moan about the guest user log in. You are one of the most vocal pissers and moaners of the lot, I might add.

Hell, Google currently has a new email software it is beta testing that threads your emails, and the Usenet software has been using the threading software (which I don't find much more useful than Mudcat's actually) for decades. Some forums have a slick software, some like Mudcat don't.

But people need to educate themselves enough about the technology they use day in and day out, to know the problem here isn't with the identity of guest log-ins without anything in the From line. As others have noted here, there is the date and time stamp to distinguish between posts from guests, which most people are just too lazy be bothered with using. But even if every single post had a cookie to identify the forum user, it still wouldn't solve the poorly organized way threads are displayed here, which is what really makes it difficult to follow threads, especially the long ones.

As Clinton points out, you either takes it or you leaves it. Max ain't gonna upgrade nothin' no more.