Guest, if there were a way to prevent identity snatching, I'd be all for dropping the "guest" prefix. (If something could be done to check the database for a name before allowing an un-cookied poster to use it.) It bothers this member when flame wars continuously erupt because of the associations both members and guests have with the prefix.

I'm also against making information a person wishes to keep private public. Scrambled IP numbers wouldn't do that, unless they were easy to un-scramble. I just don't feel they'd work that well. There are some fairly big ISPs out there (AOL and worldnet in the US and abroad, demon, freenet in the UK) and all the scrambled IP numbers would probably look very similar.