"Humph - It is sort of like having the best of both worlds isn't it? In "real life" when we have a discussion, we normally know who we are dealing with. We can at least see and identify a person, even if we do not know their name."

Ron, you do realize that this isn't real life, don't you?

Or perhaps you don't. So let me explain. This is the internet. On the internet, people are communicating from many different places around the world. You will rarely encounter most people you communicate with in chat rooms. It is fine and dandy if you do, but to EXPECT that you are going to know who the people are with whom you are communicating in a chat room/forum is, well...idiotic.

The majority of members don't even use their real names. And how many members are there that don't post to the forum at all? As someone further up the line said (a member, as I recall), if you have a tremendous fear of/annoyance level with anonymous posting, then you should limit your internet activities to forums where anonymous posting is not allowed, rather than attacking, and attempting to shame and humiliate those who choose to be anonymous in a forum that allows them to post anonymously.

I know that sending this message is the equivalent of shouting into a hurricane, but there you have it.

Can't stand anonymous posters? Find a forum that doesn't allow them. Aren't willing to do that, and prefer attacking the anonymous posters when they annoy you?

That is YOUR choice, which also makes it YOUR PROBLEM. Not the guests' problem. YOURS, PEOPLE!!! NOT MINE!!!