My name is Steve Shaw. It's the only name I use on any website. If I say something stupid I want people to know that Steve Shaw said something stupid. It doesn't stop me from saying stupid things but it does rein me in a bit. I've been guilty of abusing fellow posters on some websites at times, always out of frustation (I should learn to control my instincts better). They all know that it was Steve Shaw who abused them. On the other hand, I've been abused by many people who post under pseudonyms. I could name quite a few who do it on this site. They are cowards. There's one website, not this one, on which another poster, under his pseudonym, went for me big time, gratuitously accusing me of all sorts of scurrilous things. I found out his name and found that he'd posted a rather unflattering photo of himself online (the eejit!). He was well pissed off when I posted his name and pic. He didn't realise that Google didn't index the site we were on, so his name and pic would not be found by anyone else looking casually, but it didn't half put the shits up him. I hate internet anonymity. I've spent ten years being quite controversial on discussion forums but I've never had any offline issues as a result, so I don't quite know what Joe's drawbacks are all about.