I know of one chat room where you can read all day, but you can't post without choosing a name...then when you DO, there is a box beside the name which allows other posters to check it and no longer see posts from that name. ....of course, Mudcat is really a 'forum', not a running chat room like the other place...(in a chat room, you see all posts on any subject in order, much like the 'messages since last visit' feature here), so that technology might be trickier here...but wow, what a wish!...Imagine trolls & flamers busily typing away and no one even seeing them!