uhm - shenandoah - the "problem" members here have with guest is ONLY with unidentified flamers and trolls. Other then that we are HAPPY to have guests - named, un-named, regular, irregular, long term, short term, whatever. this has been stated over and over and over and over. However - there are posts - again from unidentified posters - that try to turn this into "guest persecution" . I don't thing any reasonable person thinks it unreasonable to want to know who it is that is slamming a friend - or one's self. And if the un-named is contributing to a discussion - a nametag certainly helps.

"Too attached to ones's mudcat identities?" -why wouldn't one be? My login name represents "me" - my opinions, my thoughts, my postings. It allows people to lookup every post I have made on the forum over five years. If someone shanghai's my id - it is basically the same as if they started sending out e-mail from my account - or signing checks with my name on them.