GUEST Celtic Soul,

My reason for not using a consistent identifying name in the From line is security. I realize that most people here are pretty paranoid about posters who cite security reasons for remaining anonymous.

That is a large part of the conflict between certain members, who are always suspicious of guests who choose to post anonymously, and don't accept security as a legitimate reason, and guests who do it.

Many people who post on the Internet are blissfully ignorant about security issues by choice. They just don't want to accept that security issues related to Internet identity are real.

For your information, the security issue with using a consistent name, whether real or fictional, is that tracking of individuals on the Internet is often done with keywords. Log-in names and passwords are the easiest thing to track. So that is why some of us choose not to use them if the forum doesn't require us to do so.

Some forums do require log-in or user names, and a verifiable email account. Many people don't use them for that reason, or use what is known as a remailer account.

Hope that clears things up for you, and finally answers your question as to why some of guests choose to post this way.