No shambles, much of your point has been discussed frequently and I think most people are quite at ease at differentiating between anonymous posting (which can be unpopular) and carrying out administrative duties anonymously. Historically anonymous administrative/volunteer comments have been made, usualy in brown text, under the text of the relavent post.

The question of a member having an "anonymous membership name" which identifies the person as an "unknown volunteer" for a post to a thread is a relatively new issue and one I have not seen discussed before. I can only find 6 examples starting May 2006 of such postings.

As I said before, I couldn't care less about it and for all I know, it might make sense for the way Mudcat is operated but it does strike me as slightly unusual.