The default for someone without a cookie should be a required email address that they enter. If we wanted to be anal about it (and more closed than the Cat would ever want to get, I think) the user who wanted to use his email address only would have to receive a robot-generated password (to confirm that it was really the email address he was getting mail at).

Another option would be some tricky Perl thing that parsed his IP number, and showed him as "Visitor from ______(DNS of host or IP number)." Dunno how effective that would be.

Or we could force them to page through the whole of "Spaw's Collected Submissions" if they chose not to register, to prove they were able to stand it here!!:>)

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