>SUGGESTION< for Max et al

offer a cookie to a GUEST as a means of identifying them "next time they post on this thread". Then call them "FOR THIS THREAD I AM, fred". Those that can and want to will have that name until they hop on another/wipe/change PC.

For genuine concerned posters who cannot allow cookies there could be a password/ID box that locks a chosen MEMBER AT WORK,name to anyone who "knows the chosen password for the thread". A hassle but if your identity is worth preserving you would do it. I would.
>/SUGGESTION<

Those that cannot or don't want to are in the same boat but it gives choices.

Dynamic IP on broadband/at work means it is harder to be any smarter than the system above. Computers at my library effectively wipe everything before I can get in, for obvious reasons, but cookies are allowed.