I'd just like to take a minute to point out that this guest, who actually has a consistent login, not too difficult to recognise, has always been polite, civilised, and even helpful. He's been civilised when no one can see him. Or her. Behaviour like that deserves recognition, at least as being different from the behaviour we've come to expect from Guests.

Another voice of a woman on the net - no one knows my last name, phone number, or things like that. I always give out my secondary email address. Here, most people could find out what state I live in, and likely what town, they could find out where I live in Scotland, but not my specific address. I SPECIFICALLY don't give out my last name, because that's all it would take for someone to know all of those. It's not common, and I'd be easy to find. Even if I don't get stalked, or have my identity stolen (it does happen, to someone I knew) It would make me uncomfortable to know that someone could call me, or some and find me. Frankly, I don't trust the world that much most of the time. Maybe it's the guys on BBS boards who asked me when they first met me 'how big you boobs?' or the man who sent me an ICQ message out of the blue saying he needed a willing s***. I'd just rather these people didn't know the real me, and that means that outside of email, no one else will either.

-J