From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 10:12 AM

Making the "from" field mandatory would be a trivial change

From: GUEST,Peter - PM
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 10:14 AM

which would stop people doing what I just did.

As the man says.

I think that permitting Guest posts in the Music Forum is a strength of Mudcat. Most forums don't allow guest posts which can be frustrating when you are searching for the solution to some problem and you come across a forum thread which almost answers your question but you can't follow it up without joining a forum which you may never use again.

I do think the rule that guests should identify themselves in some way is a good one, but it needs enforcing and that should be possible as it is very common on websites with forms to fill in for you to be thrown back if you leave an essential field blank.

So please can we have something similar for guest posts. It would save Joe Offer having to post endless messages reminding guests to identify themselves in some meaningful way.