This thread is entitled "Posting anonymously". Not "employment security & civil rights on the internet"

I never argued that you were a coward "all", I pointed out that your concerns regarding employment security were irrelevant to the question of whether or not you had a nickname by which people could recognize you on THIS forum.

You never once responded to my point because I'm right and you know I'm right.

Equally, your concerns about civil liberties have little to do with the mudcat cafe. If you don't want to give your real name, you don't have to (check back you will find I have been consistent). You are free to discuss anything you want here, under any pseudonym you choose.

You have been spending a lot of time here lately. Do you have any desire to know with whom you are discussing individual points? I do.

There is a genuine feeling amongst many of the regulars here that they know each other. Why? Because they have been coming here for a long time.

I don't know what most of the people here look like, and I don't know many of their real names, but I am able to recognise who is posting by their nickname. I know some people to be funny, some to be learned and some wise.

I also know some who I think talk a lot of unconnected shit. I think you are one of them.

When you demonstrate, clearly, how being recognizable on the mudcat forum has anything to do with job security or civil rights, I may begin to reconsider.

I am less reminded of the monty python argument sketch here, than I am of the abuse sketch.

Do you have a masochistic streak? If not, why must you set yourself up to be abused. And why would you come back?

lox