Random names - tied in with that site that provides hobbit names maybe...
I'm still puzzling over why GUESTS who were perfectly happy to use a pseudonym before the GUEST tag came in (to stop people posting under the names of other Mudcatters and bringing them into disrepute) are so coy about it now.
I can't remember any cases of people who insisted on posting with blanks where their names should be and who asserted that this was a necessary act of individual self-assertion or whatever.
And looking through the timewarp Mudcats I haven't come across any either. Maybe there is some metaphysical distinction which means that coming in as GUEST is better than coming in as ...